NICHOLAS’S POV

I was tired from all these, from the threatening texts to the calls, seeing Ava broken.

I needed a break from all these. I never saw this coming. I was just too busy with my empire.

I kept shuffling between the study room and the children’s bedroom.

I couldn’t even remember the last time I slept properly in my room, let alone sleeping at night like everyone should.

I never knew this was the price that came with the kind of past I had built.

“Why now?”

“Why not ...