Standing in front of her mother’s hospital room, Essence felt her heart racing. She wasn’t a hundred percent certain why she was nervous, but she was. Beyond this door was the person who plotted to sell her to a man to use as a s*x slave for reasons which made no sense. Her mother would have rather seen her sent to be abused than to be with the man she loved for no reason other than her father on his death bed expressed his reservations about a marriage contract.
“I’ll be right here with you. In fact, we don’t need to go in at all,” Vadim rubbed her low back gently.
“No. I need to do this. I hope she’s lucid enough to have a conversation with.”
“Iwan said he’d make sure her medications were adjusted enough she could have a conversation.”
“Is he here?”
“Yes. In the room. He wants to ta
