Chapter 443

"We're supposed to be godparents, remember?"

"Yeah, I call dibs on the baby girl."

"Then I want the boy."

"I want both! Don't hog them all to yourself."

Ailie pressed her fingers to her temples, feeling a headache coming on, while Yasmine tried to stifle her laughter beside her.

Victoria's head was pounding, their bickering like a jackhammer in her ears. With a hoarse voice, she groaned, "Can someone please kick them all out? They're driving me insane."

She'd just given birth, for heaven's sake-was a little peace and quiet too much to ask?

"Enough-out. Go argue in the hallway," she finally managed to say.

Her vision swam as exhaustion washed over her, and, letting her head fall to the side, Victoria drifted off to sleep.

Starfall City

Violet stared at McNeil, the man who had come to take her out of jail, and all her pent-up grievances flooded her eyes like a broken dam.

"I knew you'd come for me. I knew you wouldn't leave me behind."

She'd been accused of grand larceny, facing at least two years in prison. McNeil

sentence reduced to just three months. Today, as she walked out, he was there to meet her

throw herself into his arms, but one of McNeil's bodyguards stepped in and

she called, tears

he replied,

shook her head, refusing to believe he could be that heartless. "You said that last time too, but you still showed up to save

once saved me. So this is me repaying you,

was making the break

do you really think we're even? I won't let you walk away. You

care of me for as

voice was

"You crossed

you was my way

I offered you support helped where I could, but I

how serious this was. McNeil was

because she'd come between

remember? Victoria came between us. If it weren't for her

"There are no

in

used to think

her because I

what the family needed. But no one can force a man to go mad over a woman he

deep,

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