Aurélie POV
For four years, I had built an alliance with one purpose in mind revenge.
I wanted to hurt Damien and Geneviève in the only place it would truly wound them.
Their alliance.
But everything was different now.
She was locked in the cells. He knew the truth that he was the father of my children. The world I’d been living in had shifted, tilted onto an unfamiliar axis where nothing felt as simple or as clean as it once had.
He’d also stepped in front of a bullet for me.
And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t summon the same hunger for vengeance anymore. I wasn’t the same woman I’d been back then.
Neither was he.
“I’ll email them and let them know,” Fabrice says, glancing out the window to where Delphine is holding Roland’s hand. “Did you want me to watch the twins?”
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