was going to take me a long way from here." The sm

gently, though her voice was firm. "Nobody's going to take

peaking before she man

heir conversation. The voices seemed to belo

posed wooden ceiling beams. She recognized them, but

ember anyone bri

ing beneath her. She'd collapsed, and the test r

that her chest hurt. She'd become pregnant a

her and led to a marriage she'd wanted

gh the pain and nausea, along with an exhaustion that never s

ld and hearing a newborn cry. Aft

ended up in

rer, she found Ravyn staring do

here was nothing in his

ear my son?" he asked coldly. "Are

ght've expected. Corvine came forward

ignore it. She had too many question

ing. She wore a small, satisfied smile, as thou

plied quietly, trying to put her confused thoughts in o

ny trace of amusement. The look

lly expect me to let you keep my child?" he

rd almost as sha

oo," he continued. "I dealt with

g inside her give

think. She caught him around the throat and bare

on. He drove her backward with a vicious

ath from her. Pain spread through her body, and fo

d as he stood over her. "But don't forget who you're

get back on her feet. When she spoke, her

d in his expression. Then he loo

" he replied without

ent cold at

e true. You'r

ied without emotion. "She went

tip sideways, and her legs

er child. Everything she'd believed ab

ng she had. She'd even gone without the o

acrifice for a chi

If she'd agreed to a divorce sooner, she would'

r go without telli

oice again, she coul

pered. "You were the one who fo

fury that she could almost b

the whole thing up. Daisy would already be Luna if you

ut her eyes

at nothing she said woul

ved long ago, and the trut

oved. Finding out that he'd destroyed her

xplained that kind

true, she was still your child," she muttered i

gn that her words

plainly. "That's exactly w

ut showing the s

an accident? You still haven'

n her no love, and there'd been nothing warm about their life

ed instead of accepting a divorce bec

thing left of the life s

with a sweetness that did

e reassured. "You can carry on looking af

she almost let

t you've brought mine up so well. He

softer before add

his treatment, and

d that the treatment

eep his illness under

it, his illness would com

to take him with her

bring herself t

calm, though she

d to face Ravyn, she di

ive," she said, speaking each word slowly. "Le

d her bac

an effort, but sh

was to leave th

however, she found a huge

ully built and intimida

cold that she could find nothi

tare would've strugg

t once and couldn't