I did not offer forgiveness.
I did not ask the judge for mercy.
I tapped Delete.
Then I turned off my phone and slipped it into my dress pocket.
Inside the mansion, Oliver was sitting on the rug, giggling as he tried to stack wooden blocks. When he saw me, his face lit up, and he lifted both arms.
I picked him up and held him tightly, breathing in the clean, sweet scent of his hair.
Peace filled me so completely it almost felt like another kind of sunlight.
Miles had shoved me into the freezing dark because he believed the abyss would silence me forever.
But as I stood inside the fortress of my father’s empire, holding the heir to a legacy Miles had never imagined, I understood the truth monsters always learn too late.
When you throw a fierce woman into the dark, do not expect her to break against the rocks.
Be terrified.
Because she may come back with the power to own the mountain.
