A child?

Charlottes mind flashed with the image of Xavier. What else could make Julian so completely unravel, if not for something involving that mother and her son?

I hurt a child? She let out a mirthless laugh. Mr. Hawthorne, I honestly have no idea what youre talking about.

Julian seized her wrist sharply. Wasnt it you who bought the cake?

His grasp was rough, his strength unmeasured, digging into her wrist with a biting ...