Rosie’s P.O.V
There’s something terrifying about innocence.
The baby, Dan’s baby, was small, too small to hold such heavy consequences. But he did. He would. Because in a world like ours, innocence was never safe for long. And deep down, i knew it. That’s why i couldn’t sleep. Couldn’t stop pacing the corners of my mind.
I had agreed to let Dan go. I had convinced Kai, poured out every word, every reason. I told him it was the right thing, that the child shouldn’t grow up fatherless. But inside, where the truth lived, i wasn’t just scared for the baby, i was scared of him.
Because that child was power. Leverage. A pawn waiting to be moved by the ones who knew how to play. And both Eleanor and Sabrina were master players.
Sabrina had already started.“He’s a legacy,” she’d said, and tho
