Chapter 55

• Sonia Halest breathed in a deep breath, trying to get a hold of all the crying and all that impending hurt she had locked in for so long.
• “That was the reason I wanted you to marry Noémie. I know it was wrong to ask of such a thing after everything that girl had been through. All that hurt and trauma. We can’t even imagine. But I knew in my heart that you would have loved her. I would have loved her. More than anyone ever could. More than you and Vince, maybe. Like my own daughter. I wanted to give that girl my everything. I wanted her to have all the happiness in the universe. All of it.”
• Ajax leaned forward to wipe the tears off her face. He cupped her jaw and made her look at him.