Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter One: The Boy with Her Eyes
The wedding flowers were still on the kitchen table.
Two days. That was how long she had been married. Two days of the particular warm ordinary life that follows something enormous — the boys fed and held and argued over, the house slowly returning to its normal rhythm, Elena's first morning folded into the routine as though she had always been there. Two days of Kane's hand finding hers across the counter, of waking to an ocean that looked the same and felt completely different.
Two days. And now there was a woman with a court order standing in her hallway and a child on the front steps looking at the house with her eyes.
Lila looked at him for three full seconds before she moved. He was th
