Liars Like Us - Book 1: Legacy of Lies
“I would do it again. Every lie I told, every secret I kept—I’d bury them all if it meant keeping you with me. Keeping her safe.”
Her eyes searched his, the anger there dulled by exhaustion, by love. “You’re just like me,” she whispered. “A liar.”
His lips curved, wolfish. “Then we deserve each other.”
He kissed her then, slow but fierce, and for a moment, the weight of the world fell away.
At dawn, they stood together over Isabella’s crib. The baby slept soundly, her chest rising and falling beneath a blanket embroidered with roses and wolves.
Valentina’s whisper was soft, but it carried in the stillness. “This world is nothing but liars.”