Damien's POV
I was out of the car before the words finished landing in my earpiece.
Zane grabbed my arm through the open door. "Damien wait—"
"She just told her that my mother died after finding out about a dead child." My voice didn't sound like mine. "I'm not waiting."
"If you walk in there you blow whatever control Sophia has built in that room," Zane said. Fast and low. "She's handling it. Listen to her handle it."
I stood half out of the car with one foot on the pavement and forced myself to breathe and listened.
Sophia's voice came through clear and steady in a way that didn't match anything I felt right now.
"You're telling me my parents didn't just find financial fraud," she said. "They found out you had a child who died under suspicious circumstances connected to the Vale f
