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“Saxon,” Evren reproached.

“It’s okay, Evren,” she said softly.She addressed Saxon.“I overstepped.I do apologize.”

“I just don’t like to be startled.”Saxon cleared his throat.“Anyway.Jeremiah has tried getting Georgie and Cricket sober but they don’t want to get better, so all he can do is make sure their house remains standing.”

“That’s sad.”

“Them and me are the only ones that are blood related,” Saxon added, and just like that his sour mood disappeared.“We share a father.But the big melting pot of stepsiblings I have are more my family than those two.”

“Jeremiah took over as caregiver as each of us was added to the mix,” Evren explained.“He’d make sure we were fed.Went to school.Protected us.”

“I wish I had someone protect me from my father,” she mused sadly.“My mother had just been placed in the ground when he banned me from leaving his house.Said he didn’t want the outside world to influence me with inappropriate ideas.When I turned thirteen, he put my virginity up for sale and Scias bought it.His investment would’ve paid off on our wedding night when he forced himself into my body.”

She shuddered a little at the memory.

“When he raped you,” Evren clarified.

“Some would argue that a husband can’t rape a wife.”

“They would be wrong.”

She nodded, looking away, doubting she’d ever want to be intimate with a man again.

“Don’t let the monsters win,” Saxon interjected.A black hole swirled in the depths of his royal blue eyes.Pain.Anger.Disgust.The gravity sucking all his light.“There are many, many nightmares in this world and not enough good souls.Don’t let them get you lost.”

Chapter Five

“Are you going to beall right?”

Lowen smiled at Evren and patted his arm.“I’ll be fine.”

“The television has every channel known to man,” he said.

“Okay.”

“The kitchen is fully stocked.”