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

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

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

tears glistening in

even," he replied, his gaze cold and

he could be that heartless. "You said that last time too,

McNeil said flatly. "Because you once saved me. So this

was making the

even? I won't let you walk

care of me for as long as I

voice was calm,

"You crossed a

care of you was my way

marriage. I offered you support helped where I could, but I

did Violet grasp how serious this was. McNeil was desperate to draw

because she'd come

together first, remember? Victoria

"There are no

ifs' in

used to think

because I

it was what the family needed. But no one can force a man

words cut deep, leaving Violet

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