Dominic’s POV I had faced enemies without flinching. I had stood in burning buildings while the sky rained ash, watched blood spill across my territory in rivers, and made decisions that determined whether hundreds of people lived or died. But nothing — nothing in my long, brutal life — had prepared me for the sight of my family sitting together at one table. My family. The word felt both foreign and achingly familiar, like a language I had once spoken fluently and then forgotten. Amelia sat on Evelyne’s right, radiant and grown, while Liora occupied the chair beside me. The little girl was too small for the dining chair, so Marcus had found a thick velvet cushion for her. Even then, her feet barely reached the edge of the seat. She was determined to eat without assistance, which had already resulted in a small spill of creamy soup on the front of her pale blue dress. “Careful, sweetheart,” Evelyne said softly, reaching for a napkin with the gentle instinct of a mother w
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