Zoraya

Axel’s arms around me felt like the safest place in the world. For so long, I had been alone, unwanted, discarded like I was nothing. But here, in his embrace, I felt something I never thought I would—a sense of belonging.

His words echoed in my mind. You are not secondhand to me. You are not ruined.

But how could I believe that?

I had only been with one man before, and that was Jayden. And I knew now that whatever he had done to me that night had led to the child growing ...