Chapter 0738

"Just five minutes, then you can talk to your dad!" Ella calls cheerfully to Ariel as she slips back into the bedroom, pulling the door carefully shut behind her. But the moment she turns back to Cora, all kindness slips away from her face.

"I'm going to murder that stupid boxer."

"Oh no," Cora sighs, her shoulders slumping.

"Ella, can you please come over here?" Dominic sighs. "It's very hard to hear you -"

Ella sighs and storms over to the bed, sitting down hard next to her sister. "You were right, Roger."

"Usually my four favorite words," Roger sighs, shaking his head. "Though not today."

"Tell me," Dominic orders, stern.

"I looked," Ella says. "Her bond with Jackson is quite strong - bright and shining. But next to it, the one

with Luca - it's still there. Not broken, not disappeared. Just ragged as all hell and stretching out towards him, wherever he is in the world."

by the news, and ducks

the city," Cora murmurs

her with a frown but turns

hesitant. "She's not broken by this - she's not ill like Dominic was. I'm not trying to downplay

keep doing this to her - reeling her in, making his demands, and hurting her when he doesn't get what he wants. It's despicable

again, to renew the bond - she'll probably take it. The boy means a lot to her. She loves him, I'm sure of it, and she's generous

sighs, softly shaking his head. "But in the long run, a clean break would have been better. It would have killed me to see her in that kind of pain, but I'd have taken that

his head,

should have him

"Roger, it's not illegal

should be," he

anger is, of course, all for one tall dimpled

have him

dropping

war. Desertion. Lock him up in a

don't have a dungeon,

twenty years ago," Roger murmurs, looking rather superiorly down at the desk. "Would come

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