Love as a Weapon

collapsed, I married my f

gh Jase Mitchell begged me wi

away from illness, and his stepmother Katie Full

owhere to turn, I kn

teasing. "What brings y

tions and st

e's son return the stolen in

.

mbrella as I held my son's small hand

im again?" Vince asked in his childi

nt, tender face and op

no reason for you and the child to stay with the Mitchells. Jase isn't married yet, so it's not appropriate for you to live in the fami

by, then walked away in her sharp black

on Vince's hand. "Daddy's just gone to a faraway

health and slower development, Vi

ondition from worsening. Leaving the Mitchell

dn't l

ells' private hospital, and the medicine Vince needed w

rolled all

the Mitchell Group had been in limbo

disappear, I thought of

o make us leave?" Vince ask

ight enough for me to lift easily, and holding

, too fragile f

"No way, your grandma'

ection, how could I

in, and I needed

ow held the reins of

t the nanny to watch him in the hospital r

aghetti-strap dress with a cardigan over it. I applied a light layer

e housed the main branch

aw passed firs

there. I had spent the last three years mostly at the

e couldn't tolera

e was arranging a

and stood at Jase

with the butle

night and likely

amily, Jase's presence made Katie the

step. It would mean losing access to t

actly what Kati

sake, I coul

I composed my expression