CHAPTER 102

KYLO’S POV

The decision wasn’t sudden. For weeks it gnawed away at me as though some slow fire boiled on deep inside my head forever insisting upon itself. Only when Varya grudgingly suggested we give a shot together in putting things right between us did something go click in me?

My wife wasn’t just someone whom I married; she was an individual who deserved dignity, calmness, and security at home like everybody else. Action had to be taken because righting what went wrong was my business.

The dwelling turned into a battleground yet I could not afford to keep it that way any longer. To really give our union a real shot at success that is.

Dora and Cassandra had crossed boundaries too many times before, but I should have acted sooner than this. I was complicit in their behavior through my silence. But no more.

It was time to reclaim my house—and my marriage.

That morning, after breakfast, I found myself standing in the doorway of the living room where Dora and Cassandra lounged on the