AVA’S POV

Now I am beginning to feel Nicholas never trusted me from the start, he just saw me as a tool to carry his kids. Digging up on me? That sounded like betrayal to me.

The rain had stopped hours ago, but the house still felt cold.

The air carried that heavy, quiet cold it always did after a storm, the kind that settles into your bones and makes you want to wrap yourself in something warm.

While I was doing the dishes, the house keeper was surprised. I guess that’s how I wanted to ...