Lara's POV"Are you sure about that, Lara?" My dad asked, sitting close to the hospital bed where I was still propped up against the pillows. The labour was behind me now, and my body was beginning to remember what it felt like to breathe without fighting for every breath. We will be discharged soon. But before any of that, there were things that needed to be settled first."You really want to sever the blood bond between your child and his father." He said it slowly, not as a challenge …I guess he was just making sure he had heard me right and that I had heard myself.I looked down at my son; Vale, lying against my chest, his small face impossibly peaceful for someone who had just arrived in the world after that kind of entrance. Golden. Quiet now. Mine.And then Lucien's voice came back, the way it always did without asking permission. Clear, certain and cold, the way it had been that morning outside Dr. Asher's office when I had stood in the corridor and pressed my hand over my mou
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