Nicholas’s POV
I was tired from all these, from the threatening texts to the calls, seeing Ava broken.
I needed a break from all these. I never saw this coming. I was just too busy with my empire.
I kept shuffling between the study room and the children’s bedroom.
I couldn’t even remember the last time I slept properly in my room, let alone sleeping at night like everyone should.
I never knew this was the price that came with the kind of past I had built.
“Why now?”
“Why not before the existence of the kids?”
I got tired of my study and headed to the kids’ bedroom and didn’t expect to find Ava there.
The kids’ bedroom felt too painful, quiet, and full of ghosts I hadn’t yet buried.
But humming pulled me in like a magnet when I pushed the door open that evening.
Ava, was the
