Aurora's POV
"Read that line again.” I don't want to, but I read it anyway. If he finds out about the child, it will no longer be only Adrian he wants to be gone.
The words do not change the second time. Or the third.
They just get worse.
Sebastian is watching me too closely. I can feel it without looking at him. Feel the way his silence is waiting for mine to break first.
I lift my head. "What exactly are you thinking?"
His answer came too fast. "That Vincent didn't just protect money. He protected blood."
Something cold moves down my spine.
"No."
It comes out flat. Hard. Immediate.
Sebastian does not argue. That almost makes me angrier. "Aurora—"
"No." I dropped the letter on the table between us like it burned me. "You do not get to stand there and look at me like that and su
