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 was there to meet her
herself into his arms, but one of McNeil's
tears glistening in
now on, we're even," he replied, his gaze cold and
to believe he could be that heartless. "You said that last time
"Because you once saved me. So this is me repaying you, for
he was
think we're even? I
you'd take care of me
voice was calm,
crossed a
of you was
my marriage. I offered you support helped where I could, but I never agreed to let you destroy my
did Violet grasp how serious this was.
she'd come
and I were together first, remember? Victoria came
"There are no
ifs' in
used
her because
it was what the family needed. But no one can force a man to go
words cut deep,
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