NICHOLAS’S POV
Since last night, the message hasn’t left my mind. It rang in my head like a bell that wouldn’t stop.
“She’s still watching you like her life depends on it.”
It wasn’t an empty threat, it was a reminder that my world was no longer safe, that someone out there was stalking us like a predator circling its prey.
I tried to shake it off, but I couldn’t. Because every time I looked at Ava, I saw the burden in her eyes, the exhaustion she tried to cover up, and the silent plea she never spoke.
She carried the children’s absence inside her like a wound that refused to heal.
And now, this… this invasion of our lives, of our home, of the only safe space she had left.
I couldn’t stand it. When dawn began to break, I had already made up my mind.
I called my trusted men, the
