Logan stepped forward, his small fists clenched tight.

“You left Mama when we were babies.”

Dominic looked down at him, and shame finally crossed his face. “I didn’t know about you.”

Logan’s voice shook with an intense, quiet anger.

“You didn’t ask.”

No one spoke after that. Victoria looked away, but I caught the fear flickering in her eyes. She’d known enough. Maybe not every single detail, but enough to know Dominic had left a woman and children behind.

To people like Victoria Vance, human beings only became real when the paperwork made them expensive…