Erick
“This one is a good one. Don’t lose her. And I’m sure you will both have healthy and beautiful kids.”
I nodded quietly, my mother’s words still echoing in my mind.
Something in my chest tightened.
A sense of gratitude washed through me. A feeling I rarely allowed myself to feel.
For a long time, I had accepted solitude as the natural consequence of power. But Sophia… she had rewritten every unspoken rule I had lived by.
“You’ll have to stay healthy enough to meet those grandkids,” I said with a smirk, turning my gaze toward her. “And that means taking your medication. Every single one.”
My mother rolled her eyes, but a fond smile tugged at her lips. “You always sound like your father when you lecture.”
“I take that as a compliment.”
“It wasn’t one.”
We both laughed, and t
