I considered my answer carefully.

“I think he has a chance to learn what loving you requires.

Whether he uses that chance is up to him.”

Mason leaned against me, and the others piled on until I could barely breathe beneath four sleepy boys.

That was the family I had spent eight years building.

No conversation in a mansion could erase it.

PART 11

On December twenty-sixth, Tristan sent his first email.