“Ava, are you all right? Did he hurt you?” Silas asked stirring her from her thoughts. “…N-no. He didn’t.” She shook her head. “Lucky for him then. If he had…” Silas let his words and thoughts fall silent not wanting to continue less he scare her. “I’m sorry.”
“Since we were, like, five.” “…That long? How? I never told you…” “We overheard you and Aunt Tracy talking late at night when you thought we were asleep,” Theo admitted. “And we’ve been planning our revenge on all the people who hurt you.” “Your revenge?”
“Wow! Check this place out! It’s huge!” Theo declared as they paused inside the foyer. A step behind him Sean whistled. Their father called it a villa but the brownstone was more like a mansion. Who would have thought such a place existed even on the Upper West Side? Behind them c
“Ava, I didn’t…I didn’t know it was you that day,” Silas finally spoke the words he wanted to say. “You…didn’t know?” “No. My friends thought…They wanted me to loosen up so they slipped something in my drink and…When I woke up and saw you I thought…God I thought you were a
Her head pounded from the contradictory thoughts running through her head. She rubbed her temples forcing them to the side. She would think about that later. Her gaze fell on the inviting tub now filling with steaming water. First thing first…a bath to sooth her frayed nerves. * * *
“So…What do you think of, you know, our father?” Theo gave a noncommittal shrug at his brother’s query as he lay at the foot of Alexis’s bed. The butler had shown them to their rooms without so much as a question concerning the origins of the four people his employer sudde
“She does,” Alexis said leaving no room for debate. “She’s just buried her feelings for so long she’s afraid to acknowledge them anymore.” “So…what do we do? Do we…help him?” “No,” Alexis said after a long moment. “He needs to earn mom’s love himself but we also don’t ha
“Whoa! Check it out!” Theo marveled. “This place is huge!” After three days they had settled into the brownstone with their father and even got used to the ever present butler. After addressing concerns over his sudden departure from work their first day Silas had been working from h