"He promised to corrupt me. Instead he taught me how to live again."MYRAOne year later.The nursery was painted a soft cream color that had taken me three weeks to choose and Zyran exactly four minutes to approve, which was the particular division of labor that had come to define us — me deliberating, him deciding, both of us arriving at the same place through completely different routes.She was three months old.Isla Rossi Theon, who had arrived in the world at two in the morning on a Tuesday with dark hair and her father's gray eyes and a temperament that swung between absolute calm and absolute fury with no discernible middle ground, which everyone agreed was entirely Zyran's fault.I stood in the doorway of the nursery and watched him.He didn't know I was there yet. He was standing over the crib with Isla against his chest, one large hand spanning her entire back, and he was doing the thing he did when he thought nobody was watching — talking to her quietly, low enough that I
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