Aria.
I didn't sleep again that night.
I lay on my back staring at the ceiling with Diana pressed against my left side and Damon's back against my right arm.
Both of them were out within minutes of their heads hitting the pillow. Diana snored lightly the way she always did. Damon was completely still the way he always was.
I listened to them breathe and stared at the ceiling.
He had let them call him Eryx.
That was the thing I couldn't get past. Everything else about today I could file away and manage. The panic of not finding them. The relief of seeing them safe. The humiliation of crying in front of him. I could put all of that somewhere and deal with it later.
But he had let them call him Eryx.
He had been on one knee on the floor of his own study talking to my son about maps. H
