LOGINI walked toward Ella’s bed and sat down beside her. She pulled herself up with much difficulty and looked down at our daughter. “She’s so small,” I said, my eyes filling with tears. The wait, the pain and everything were worth this—this joy and the deep love I felt in my heart. I met Ella’s gaze a
[FOUR YEARS LATER] EROS I was panicking more than Ella was. But I couldn’t take her screams, let alone look at her. She was covered in sweat from head to toe and her entire body was shuddering. This was partially my fault, I could say. She buried her head back on the pillow and let out another lo
Even in my absence, I had been sure that Mariella was okay. She was upset, which was understandable, but she was safe. Adonis had ensured it. I hurried into my wing and up to my room, unable to control the burdening feeling in my chest. I needed to let out all that I had been holding inside, to tel
Both Mom and Adonis scanned the room. I didn’t know why, but I didn’t have a good feeling about this. Ella was running away. Or perhaps hiding something from me. I sincerely wished it was the prior. Adonis took a deep breath and spoke. “Ma, I need to speak to Eros.” I was dumbfounded. I widened my
EROS With all the men guarding me, I felt like a child being carried to the principal’s office. Every fucking one of them had a brooding look on their face. And I had been seeing them every day for the past two months. No more. I was finally returning home. To my family. To my wife. I wondered ho
As I pushed the door, I noticed the girl sitting on the ground, holding a grey shirt to her chest. Eros’s shirt. Had she been holding onto him in this manner? Crying herself to sleep holding that one shirt? Consoling herself that he was alright? “Mariella?” Her eyes widened and snapped toward me.
The people who did this would pay from I had seen from the fire in Adonis's eyes. He would murder those people in the most gruesome way possible. “Do you want to crash in my room?” she asked me. I didn’t want to stay alone, but I couldn’t stay with her. “No, when Adonis gets back, he’ll need you.
MARIELLA I wished I wouldn’t have come. The bright lights and the flowers and everything else made me feel miserable. But above all were the whispers and the pitiful glances. I couldn’t take any of it. If it hadn’t been for Bella, I wouldn’t have been here amid hoards of people. At a reception par
“I’m so sorry, Mom,” he said, his voice breaking. “But you have to calm down.” Orlanda jolted his hands away with all her strength and stepped away from him, her eyes searing with rage. “Tell me what happened,” she demanded. “Eros has suffered the worst possible concussion. Subdural hematoma—” “B
My chest heaved as I crouched and collected the parts, my fingers shaking and eyes burning. Not with anger. This wasn’t rage. It was all the controlled emotions and the guilt that I had suppressed over the years. I turned the body around; the words carved on the back of the metal sent a shot of pai







