[Lucien]
She just stared at me, lips parted, frozen in disbelief.
"What do you mean he's my father?" Violet asked, her voice strained.
I didn't respond.
What could I say that would make the truth easier to swallow?
Instead, I looked out the windshield. "Drive."
"Lucien—"
"I said drive."
She hesitated, then gripped the wheel with trembling hands and pulled away from the curb a second later.
I hadn't always known she was Fenrick's daughter. The realisation hadn't hit until long after she left—after she drugged me and took my child and vanished like a coward and the last chunks of my memory began to return.
I remember waking up on the floor, my muscles numb, my mouth dry, calling out for her in a voice I barely recognised. She was already gone. The only thing she left was a pathetic
