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."

news, and ducks his

Luca's in the city,"

glances at her with a frown but turns back

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

to keep doing this to her - reeling her in, making

she 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 when she

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

shakes his head,

have him arrested,"

breathes. "Roger, it's not illegal

it should be,"

at the screen, though his anger is, of course, all for one tall dimpled playboy and

could have him

dropping out

of war. Desertion. Lock him up in a dungeon, let the rats gnaw at his toes

have a dungeon,

one when I told you to twenty years ago," Roger murmurs, looking rather superiorly down at the desk. "Would come in handy right

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