Nadia's POV
"If you want Lucian that badly, you should go beg Mom and Dad." I pulled the car door open, my voice sounding lethal over the roar of the engine. "Sorry, I can't help you with anything."
I drove away as soon as I got into my car, because I didn't want to spend one more minute at this place where no one ever cared for me.
Coming back from my parents' house, I felt like my soul had been hollowed out.
I hadn't eaten all day. My stomach was a void, yet it felt bloated with a heavy, suffocating grief.
I headed downstairs and asked a servant to prepare something light. I needed to make sure the pup growing inside me wouldn't starve, even if I had no appetite of my own.
But the moment the steaming plate touched the table, the faint scent of grain, amplified a thousand times by
