Declan Grace had been in her room for five days now. She had insisted that she got released early on the condition that she prioritized her recovery and avoided stress at all costs. Turns out that Grace took that quite literally because she had made it her life mission to avoid my brother and I like a plague. She was always holed up in her room, and the times when she was not, if she even so much as had an inkling that Rhys or me was coming in one direction, she would run away through the other like her heels were on fire. The only people she agreed to have in her space were her kids. And I understood why she was doing this. Rhys and I hurt her bad. I was the one who pushed for us to start things afresh, but I could not even offer her my trust… she called out to me that day, with t

