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."

the news, and ducks his face into his

the city,"

her with a frown but turns back

Roger asks, hesitant. "She's not broken by this - she's not ill like

- reeling her in, making his demands, and hurting her when he doesn't get what he wants. It's despicable for a man to tell the woman he loves that she's rejected, to shred the bond almost to the

has a chance to try 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 of heart enough to see his good attributes

have been...hard on her," Dominic 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 choice if it meant a clean break from him. I never regretted breaking from Lydia. But to use rejection as a punishment,

shakes his head,

him arrested," Roger murmurs,

Cora breathes. "Roger, it's not

it should be," he

screen, though his anger is, of course,

have

dropping

war. Desertion. Lock him up in a dungeon, let

have a

looking rather

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