*****
Why had Emery hidden this from him?
Why had Ethan taken him away?
And why… why did he feel like he had just lost the most important thing in his life all over again?
By the time he returned to the car, Dave was pouting in the backseat, clearly annoyed. “Papa, you scared me. Why did you run?”
Damian slid into the driver’s seat, his face dark and unreadable. He didn’t respond. He simply gripped the steering wheel so hard it threatened to snap, his mind consumed with a single thought:
I will find him.
No matter what it takes.
And deep inside, for the first time in years, his heart whispered the name he had buried in silence....
Emery.
****
The night was far too quiet.
Damian lay in his king-sized bed, staring at the ceiling, but sleep refused to come. Clara was next to him,
