Damian's POVI push open the door to our chamber, and the sight before me stops me in my tracks.Selena sits propped against the headboard, her back supported by pillows, her hair loose and spilling over her shoulders like silk. On her lap, Asher bounces and giggles, his tiny hands reaching for her face, his laughter filling the room like music.She's playing with him—making silly faces, tickling his tummy, kissing his cheeks. And he's laughing. Really laughing. That bright, unguarded, joyful sound that I so rarely hear from him.I've noticed it before. Asher only laughs like this when Selena is with him. With everyone else—with me, with Greta, with Rina—he's quiet, watchful, serious. But with his mother, he transforms. He becomes a different child. A happy child.Selena looks up, her eyes finding mine, and her face breaks into that smile—the one that makes my heart stop, the one that reminds me why I would burn the world for her."Look," she says, turning Asher in her lap to face me.
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