Reunion with the Don After Parting
Adrian held my hand tight, tears striking down one after another, like it tore him apart, and demanded of me viciously, "Eve, how could you lie to me? What right did you have to take my child and let him suffer like this? He's dying, and you still wouldn't come to me?"
I laughed, wretched, and asked him back, "Adrian, come to you for what? So you could give up another arranged marriage for me? So the family could cast you off again? You think your father would have spared me, spared Damian?"
"Adrian, there are plenty of things in this world more important than love. I didn't want you. I only wanted to live my life in peace. Why did you have to keep coming after me?"
"My child could have been