Dante: I clenched my right fist as I waited for Aurora to open the door, knowing that she was well aware of my presence and yet was refusing to let me inside. My wolf grew more protective as I waited by the door, hearing her racing heart. I had a bouquet of red and white roses in my left hand, and it took me everything not to break the door down as I heard a sob break from her lips. Knowing that I was the cause of it didn’t help in any possible way. “Aurora, please open the door, neonata” I begged again. I had gone to a flower store to get her flowers to apologize for hurting her; however, I didn’t expect to find her sobbing at home, broken from what I said. The way she looked at me back in the office was still stuck in my head, and seeing as I knew that I should have asked her instead of accusing her based on what Caspian said; I couldn’t help but regret speaking to the man to begin with. Again, she didn’t respond. However, I could hear her footsteps inside the house as she walk

Dante: “What are we going to do now?” Aurora asked, shaking her head as she placed her hand on her stomach. The two of us were heading to the hospital where Laura worked for her ultrasound, and despite her being excited about it, I could tell that she was more than just a little nervous. “We’re going to see how far our baby is, and we’re going to make sure that you and the baby are healthy. Yes, she told me yesterday that you two were, but I still want her to take some blood tests to ensure that” I said, looking at my beauty as I drove. If she was going to risk going to Giovanni, I needed to be sure that it wouldn’t be dangerous on her or the baby; otherwise, we would just drop the whole fucking thing and leave just like mom said. My mate, baby, and family were a lot more important to me than some revenge that seemed to be throwing us in random loopholes. “Then what?” She asked, biting her bottom lip. “Then, my neonata, we’re going to go home, to let mom know of this. I am sure th

Dante: The man’s words played in my head as I opened my eyes the next morning. My vision blurred as the light hit my eyes, and the headache that formed afterwards didn’t help much, but that was the last thing that I could care to think about right now. My heartbeat was calm, and my wound bandaged, and despite just waking up, I couldn’t help but think of the topic. The man’s words played in my head regardless of whether or not I was exhausted. I hissed, sitting up on the bed to frown when I couldn’t find Aurora anywhere. I knew that she came to my side somewhere in the night. My wolf only relaxed upon feeling her presence close to me, and judging by the fact that my wolf was as calm despite being in distress, I knew that it was due to her being by my side. The fact that I knew that she was at risk of almost losing our baby last night didn’t help me much, and knowing that Leonardo would have done everything possible to prevent that didn’t help me either. In other words, I knew that

Dante: I walked out of the bedroom, shocking my family, who were sitting in the living room. Mom, who expected me to come to her first, flinched, fearing my reaction; however, she was not the reason why I got out of bed. My mate and beauty was standing out alone in the veranda, staring into space, as she got lost in her thoughts. She didn’t even know how much courage it took me to come and face her after what she said. She didn’t understand how ungrateful she made me feel to what I had. I had a family by my side, regardless of the mistakes that have happened, and regardless of whatever lies or secrets, I at least knew that I could go somewhere if I needed it. I just realized that she literally had no one, and that alone broke me more than I could express. I walked toward her, my steps careful as not to catch her attention or scare her before I wrapped my arms around her. She jumped for a second before allowing herself to relax in my embrace, and resting my chin on her shoulder, I

Nicolas: “You do realize that he would kill you the second he could, right?” Alessandro asked, raising an eyebrow at me. I sighed and sat on the floor in front of the cell that he’s been living in for as long as I could remember. “You and I both know that I have no other option, Alessandro. He would kill mom the second he can, and I did not risk everything to end up watching her die” I said, shaking my head at him “you of all people should know the struggle that we’ve lived through before he even allowed us any peace” “And have you seen any peace since then?” He asked, shaking his head at me. I stayed quiet, looking down at my lap as I recalled the struggle that he made us live through. Not only did he look at me as a bastard child, but he treated mom as a whore despite being his wife. He forced the woman to sign divorce papers, making sure to ruin her reputation as not to allow her to work anywhere to support herself or me. Had it not been for Steven, another slave to the man, we w