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

to get her sentence reduced to just three months. Today, as she walked out, he

arms, but

she called, tears glistening in

we're even," he replied, his gaze

heartless. "You said that last time too, but

you once saved me.

was making

even? I won't let you walk away.

you'd take care of me for as long as I

was calm,

crossed a

you was

you support helped where I could, but I never agreed to let

did Violet grasp how serious this was.

she'd come between

were together first, remember? Victoria came

"There are no

ifs' in this

interrupted. "I used to

her because

my grandfather insisted, because it was what the family needed. But no one can force a man to

words cut deep,

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