ASHER The weight of the night's events lingered in my bones as I awoke to a new day. The emptiness of the Palace felt suffocating, each room echoing with the absence of the children I had come to love so much. She cried all through the night with her face buried in my chest. I wouldn't be lying if
The questions stopped for a while, and Gaston's phone chimed. I frowned when he unlocked it, stared into the screen, and dropped his jaw like he had just seen something very unbelievable. "Your Majesty," He called out. I narrowed my eyes on him. "I think you might want to see this." When the det
SOPHIA I couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't stop crying. Every single minute I found myself asking what was happening to my boys. Where were they? Were they in trouble - of course they were! Had they had anything to
"What the hell is this about, Asher? Aren't you supposed to be busy finding my boys?" "Why should I? Huh? It's not like they are my sons…" He paused, and I knew it was to watch my reaction. I couldn't hide the anger that was brewing in the pit of my stomach. It expressed itself in everything, incl
ASHER How could she? That was the only question that ran through my mind as I fixed my gaze on her, wishing she would say something and not stay silent like she had fallen into a fucking trance. Soon, she looked up at me and shook her head. In her eyes, I could see defiance, stubbornness, the unw
"Oh? So you've found your voice now, huh?" She took a step backwards. Her eyes softened as she looked into mine. "A…Asher…" "Fuck you, Sophia. Alright? And stay the fuck away from me." I tore my gaze away from her and returned to the chief detective. "Where is she now?""After threatening her,
SOPHIA Asher was hurt. Not that I could blame him, but he was also the least of my problems at that point. Words could not begin to describe my happiness when Gaston said my boys had been found. The wave of relief that washed over me, sending a warm feeling down my spine. It was only a matter of t
I jumped out of the car, literally, and ran as fast as I could to the bench. Tears gathered in my eyes as I did so. For a moment, just a little moment there, I had thought I would never see them again. "David! Daniel! Darwin!" I screamed at the top of my voice as I ran towards them. As soon as the