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Then she’d found out she ith child by her attacker and o face her demon in his den She’d been ridiculed and sha with her life when the animals tried to beat the child out of her

“Papa, he was never the same after the day he found me, but when he learned of what they tried to do he becaether and made a plan” Her eyes flew to mine then as if she’d said too much

“It’s okay, I won’t repeat what you’ve toldyou can tell me that will eance if someone hurt one of his kids or his wife; trust me, I understand

“There was a wedding, the Ricci were all gathered that day I don’t knohat the plan was, papa never said All I know is that night he cae He’d been planning all along He’d sold what he could and begged where he could to get e to America

I knew nothing of this plan, I had no tie under cover of night and I still didn’t knohy It was only days later that I learned the truth An eye for an eye! Papa believed that they had killed his daughter, so he took theirs It was her wedding day She was blown to pieces at the altar”

She flew off the bed and ran to the bathroom with me hot on her heels I held her hair and rubbed her back as she retched into the bowl

There were a ret, pity, coer had a head start “You better now?” I helped her to her feet and over to the sink to get her cleaned up

She was so pitiful, and weak My heart squeezed infor weeks and I should’ve known it would only be a matter of time I’m not one of those men who need to have two or three women to feel like a man

But I knew the way I felt about her wasn’t going to be ignored for too long The struggle I’d had withoff irl that both our families expected me to marry, was at an end

I can already i to be soes in the Russo household pretty soon I would never have pegged myself as the type to raise another man’s child, but somehoith her, it didn’t seem to matter as much

There was no way I could leave her like this, to just let shit go on as before, she didn’t deserve it She’d suffered enough And what about the kid? If I turn my back on her noill happen to her and the kid? Innocents, both of them

I thought for sure after she scared the shit out ofthat I would drop it, but as soon as I saw the white of her eyes, I was on it again

“Where is the father?” I wasn’t sure what to feel when tears started seeping from the corners of her eyes before she turned her face away fro because he’d left her after finding out about the baby? What?

“Where?” I turned her face back to mine, and the look in her eyes almost broke my heart I felt a luut What was it about this girl that made me want to bundle her up and tuck her away somewhere safe?

“There is no father” She wouldn’t look atthis, but I was still no wiser as to what the fuck, so I couldn’t leave it there I needed to know

So in ive her a child Which was theever since we obviously hadn’t known each other when the deed was done, and even if we had…

“What does that mean? You obviously let so, Draco? You didn’t bring her here to treat her like this, take that shit down a notch; can’t you see she’s fucking scared?

“Sorry, please tellon Why were you about to sleep in my stables? Are you in some kind of trouble? I can’t help you if you don’t tellwas, not is