Lara woke up from another nightmare the next morning. She stared up at the ceiling and let her tears slide down her face as the phantom pain in her stomach faded. There had been good dreams — or memories rather— before she’d been forced to relive Katherine’s death yet again. Katherine and Alexander’s bonding ceremony had been one of the most beautiful Lara had ever seen, but it was the memory of Katherine telling Alex about her pregnancy that had been perhaps the best day of Katherine’s life.
Alex had been so outrageously happy and excited, and seeing them then lose that child and their own lives afterward was almost more than Lara could bear. Anthony’s cold hatred and jealousy reminded her so much of Jackson, and Lara wanted to scream at the injustice of it all. There was so much pain i
