ADRIANA
God, I'm so stupid. Why couldn’t I keep my big mouth shut? I’d wanted to confirm whether she really was as forbidden a topic as Betty had said.
Well, judging by the extremely deep scowl on Elijah’s face, I had my answer.
“I’m so sorry—”
“He’s not my son.”
My mouth hung open. “What?”
He relaxed his shoulders slightly.
“Leo is Liam’s son. When Liam was killed, Leo couldn’t handle the loss. He got sick and his mother abandoned him because she didn’t want to deal with caring for him anymore. So I took him in. I couldn’t just send him away. Liam was like a brother to me.”
I could hear the pain threading through his voice and it absolutely broke my heart. He really wasn’t the man I’d initially thought he was at all.
He’d taken me in when I had nowhere to go. Then he’d taken in H
