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Everyone is already asleep in the mansion except Devon who is sitting on the bed silently rocking the baby to sleep while crying.

Daemon hasn't come home since last night after they have been discharged from the hospital. What was supposed to be a celebration for the coming home of Daemon's twin son turned out to be total waste when she emerged from the car with one baby wrapped in a pink saddle.

Everyone is silent. The guards looked, the helpers stared and murmured, and Daemon's men looked from afar, confused how one of the two babies only survived.

The party poppers went off and blue confetti rained down upon them. The entire mansion is decorated with blue balloons, blue designs, and blue everything.

Feeling out of place, Devon hugged the baby closer to her chest. Head down, she went upstairs to their room and laid the baby gently to the crib filled with dangling car and gun toys. Her baby is unwelcome in a house that longs for a son.

She's mortified too. She’s expecting a twin bu