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Chapter 229

Alexander

Ella was dead.

She’d passed away during labor a week ago, and it still didn’t feel real. Not when the coroner came to take

her away, not when the funeral director asked me to pick out a casket, and not even now, when her body was laying on display just downstairs.

She couldn’t be dead. I refused to believe it. I swore my bond to her hadn’t fully severed somehow, as if

faint threads of it still existed in the ether….

she was truly

desperately wished I could turn back the clock and never lock her up. Maybe if she hadn’t felt the need to rush to her family’s burnt home in secret, I could have been there to help her when she went into labor. Or maybe she wouldn’t have gone into labor at all because

was done was done. Ella was dead,

Our son.

felt fitting. He was the only thing keeping me going at the


my arms for the first time was when it finally hit me: I did love her. I’d always tried not to fall for her, even to the point of refusing to think the word to myself, but I knew now that I had. I

small and without a mother,

with one hand, a sleeping Lucien bundled up safely in the crook of my other arm, a knock on the

finally brought him to my office

him.

urge to send her away. She had been the one to find Ella in the forest and help her deliver Lucien; if she hadn’t, both Ella and Lucien might

died.

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