Elena’s POV

The office feels colder than it should, though I know it’s just my own nerves making everything sharper, more immediate. I sit in Cole’s office, my heart still beating fast from thinking about what could have happened. What were my children thinking? I will have to have a talk with them when I get home. Are they so desperate to have a daddy and a normal life? I have been hiding them away for a long time. Am I a bad mother for not allowing them to have a father?

I shake my ...