26. Only mine

If you're mine you can't be anyone else's. ~ A. Gupta

VIOLET

Last night’s memories faded back as a soft knock on the door intruded our small group, making Bree and Mad pause in their conversation as the door opened and Dominic stepped inside.

I didn’t know why I did it but the way the tense silence stretched, I signed to break it up, ‘Oh, daddy is here.’ If Dom had been a little more perceptive and had let his brain work for what it was meant to be, he’d have known the double meanings behind my sentence. But the way he looked at me, I knew he didn’t get the hidden truth of my words.

Cole chuckled from behind me, making me shiver with the way his deep voice rolled down my back. I so wanted to turn around and look at him, but I held myself in check as I heard him question, “Do I need to translate that?”

Dom grumbled something under his breath. He had started to look more like a human being than he did before in Kiara’s absence which reminded me of what Alex had said about Maddox and