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er compared to the hurricane

one else had access to. On the table before him were files, encrypted USB drives, a

pened it, n

breath, and flippe

d. So I stopped believing I could ever be loved, but then he looked at me

ghtened arou

aphina's h

into her pain. It was a roadm

t appearing: Vivienne

st a Rousseau man. Not even

e st

he way Seraphina described him, he had a twisted obsession

had a child, they'd burn every trace of me.

d, so Adrien had been

he was a threat, but because hi

Sera

ed for daring to crea

pped out. Burned, maybe, h

hone, trace Vivien

eam three hou

ades ago. Most believed she had died shor

iding just lik

ep in the backseat. The child had clung to his side all nigh

ttage tucked between wildflower fields

open before Dan

in Seraphina's file but no less striking. Her silver hair

te and straight to

ed. "Mon

t, clutching

e trembled. "He

orward, I need

ands. Leo sat at a nearby table drawing with

at Dante. You a

ng, taken, possibly killed

I left because I knew what Étienne was capable of, what Adrien wou

he was a liability, that she would be watc

Adrien sold Leo in a

au than any of them but Adrien's hatred is ancient. You se

ked. "What

hesi

timate child would bring about the family's ruin. Adrien belie

blood tu

Leo is the

eath her shawl and p

Told me if anything ever happened

locket had a picture of Seraphina and Leo, taken secretly in a hospital

ed the

Da

nd I hate that you're holding our son a

s don't destroy with guns. They destroy reputations, lives, even entire legacies but if Adrien is behind this if he's hurt Leo you

alw

aph

e letter with t

eo, he will never carry our war but from

ide the cottage, D

ice came thro

k, now... the press

ind of

hesi

ild. That you're hiding the illeg

ow the hell di

rom a leaked email traced back to

toward the ho

ust trying to e

time with a full-blown media scand

w, not