INICIAR SESIÓNChapter 112.
By the time Kai brought Skye home, the silence between them had become almost unbearable.
He had barely let her out of his sight since they left VISION. He had driven her home, carried her bag upstairs, checked the locks, and asked whether she wanted something to eat. When she said no, he had asked whether she wanted tea. When she declined that too, he had settled beside her on the couch, close enough to touch but never quite demanding that she let him.
Skye
Chapter 117.Kai had been awake for nearly an hour before Skye opened her eyes. She found him sitting on the edge of the bed, fully dressed, with his phone in one hand and a cup of water on the bedside table, and the moment she stirred he turned toward her and smiled so immediately that she couldn't help smiling back."Good morning, Schatz."Skye rubbed her eyes. "Why are you looking at me like that? Like you've won something.""Maybe I have."She threw a pillow at him, but he caught it before it reached his face and set it neatly beside her, then leaned down to kiss her forehead. "I've made an appointment with a
Chapter 116.For several seconds Kai couldn't seem to breathe.He stood in the middle of the kitchen, staring at Skye as though she'd just told him the world was about to end. His hands were still wrapped around her arms, but his grip had loosened, and his eyes kept moving between her face and the hands she had pressed against her stomach.Pregnant?The word echoed in his mind, carrying more possibilities than he'd ever let himself picture in any detail. A child. Their child.A tiny person with Skye's eyes, maybe, or her stubbornness, or his own unfortunate habit of scowling at everything, someone who would call him Daddy one day. He'd never thought that far ahead, and not because he didn't want a family. He just wasn't the kind of man who planned his happiness around things he couldn't control. He'd spent years building walls and protecting what was his and convincing himself the life he had was enough, and then Skye had walked into it
Chapter 115.The door closed behind Lena and Axel, leaving a silence that seemed to swallow the whole apartment.Skye stood beside the dining table, staring at the empty doorway. She could still see Lena's hurt expression, the way her eyes had filled before she turned away, and the words Skye had thrown at her kept replaying in her head, each repetition making her feel worse.She hadn't meant it. Not really.Lena had been there long before Kai, before VISION, before any of the chaos that had turned Skye's life upside down. She was the person Skye called when things went wrong, the one who could make her laugh when she wanted to cry, and accusing her of jealousy had been cruel. Skye knew that.But Lena's suspicion about Elise had frightened her too, because she couldn't bear the thought of losing another person she trusted, not while Greta's death was still an open wound."Baby?"Kai's voice pulled her out of her thoughts.
Chapter 114.Lena and Axel arrived in Berlin that afternoon and they found Skye at VISION, sitting in her office with Kai beside her while Detective Roth and Behrens finished going over the latest developments. The police tape still stretched across the corridor near the office where Greta was found, and the sight of it made Lena's face crumple before she could hide it."Skye," Lena whispered, crossing the room.Skye barely had time to stand before her best friend wrapped both arms around her. She buried her face in Lena's shoulder and gripped the back of her coat as if she'd been waiting for permission to fall apart, and Lena held her tightly, one hand cradling the back of her head while the other rubbed slow circles between her shoulders. Neither of them spoke for a long time.Axel had stopped a few feet short of the police tape, and he studied it with exaggerated seriousness before glancing at Behrens. "So, just to clarify, if I step over that line, do I get arrested immediately,
Chapter 113.Kai was halfway across the living room when Skye read the message a second time."Don't touch anything," he said, his voice so controlled that it frightened her more than shouting would have. He came back to her side, leaned over the sofa, and photographed the message with his own phone before asking her to put hers on the coffee table. "Did you reply?"Skye shook her head. "No. I didn't even know what to say.""Good. Don't delete it, don't answer it, and don't block the number." He crouched in front of her and settled his hands over hers. "We're going to let Roth handle this."The mention of the detective brought Greta's face into Skye's mind. She could still see her on the office floor, the cracked glasses, the paper cup, the hand curled into a fist. Whoever had sent that message knew something about the coffee, and they'd chosen to remind her of it while she was still trying to understand how a woman who baked cookies for everyone could end up dead on her office floor.
Chapter 112.By the time Kai brought Skye home, the silence between them had become almost unbearable.He had barely let her out of his sight since they left VISION. He had driven her home, carried her bag upstairs, checked the locks, and asked whether she wanted something to eat. When she said no, he had asked whether she wanted tea. When she declined that too, he had settled beside her on the couch, close enough to touch but never quite demanding that she let him.Skye knew he was worried. She could see it in the way his eyes followed her whenever she moved, in the way his hand reached for hers whenever she grew quiet. He had always been protective, but today it felt different. He was watching her as though the moment he looked away, something else might happen.She couldn't bear it anymore. “Kai, could you please stop following me around?”His hand stilled on the couch between them. “I’m not following you around, Schatz.&







