Page 112 of Sweet Possession

It fit perfectly.

“Well?”he said, cocking his head to the side, and giving me alopsided grin.

A happy smile pulled at my lips as I stared up at him.“Yes, Daddy. I’llmarry you.”

The End.

Epilogue

Cora

For all the fretting I’d done over the last two weeks, it transpired I hadnothing to worry about.

My grandparents liked me.

At least, I thought they did. My grandma, Elena, hadn’t let go of myhand from the minute Fox and I sat down with them at the restaurant we’d arranged to meet them at. And my grandpa, Helios, hadn’t been able to wipe the affectionate smile from his face.

So yeah, I was pretty sure theyweren’tdisappointed to havediscovered they had an eighteen-year-old granddaughter.

I still couldn’t believe it.

I had grandparents.

And a brother. Although, no one knew where in the world he was,much like mymom’s whereabouts.

Two weeks ago, Fox sat me down to tell me he’d been keepingsomething from me. He didn’t want to tell me what he’d been up to in case I got my hopes up, only for them to be dashed.

It turned outthatFox had managed to get some information from mydad before he took his last breath. All it took was the sharp end of a knife pressed to my dad’s balls for him to tell Fox what he knew about Alexandria Doukas; my mom.

To a degree, my dad had told mesometruths about my mom. She’dstayed with me and my dad until I was a year old, before deciding she didn’t want to be a mom anymore. The same thing she’d seemingly done with Andreas, my brother, who was four years older than me. Only, she didn’t leave Andreas with his dad, mainly because she didn’t know who his dad was. Instead, she’d given him up for adoption.

For several years, my dad didn’t know where my mom had gone untilshe reappeared back in Vegas when I was five. According to him, she was high on drugs and offered to sleep with my dad if he gave her money.

I’d told Fox I didn’t want to know what my dad’s reply had been tothat.

After, she disappeared, and my dad never saw her again. Theprivate investigator Fox had hired to find her had failed, but in his investigation, he’d discovered my grandparents were still alive, and living in Hawaii in the same place my mom had grown up.

Once Fox told me everything, he’d asked if I wanted to make contactwith my grandparents.

I didn’t.

I was too terrifiedthatthey wouldn’t want to know me, so Fox hadcontacted them on my behalf. They’d beenjustas shocked as I was to learn they had a granddaughter, but when the shock had worn off, they’d been ecstatic, and desperate to meetme.

And so, here we were. We’d flown to Hawaii a couple of days agowith Nash and Sav. Sav had been dead set on going to the Bahamas for their babymoon, but when we’d told them of our plans while we were in Hawaii, they’d jumped at the chance to come with us.

“What was she like as a child,”I asked my grandparents once thewaiter had taken our order.

I’d been shaking like a leaf when Fox pulled up to the beachsiderestaurant where we’d arranged to meet Elena and Helios, but after tears, hugs, andevenmore tears, my nerves had settled.

The two of them encouraged me to ask anything I wanted to knowabout my mom, telling me they’d do their best to answer. But they hadn’t seen her for over twenty years, so they weren’t sure how helpful they could be.

Elena gave me a sad smile.“She was a bright girl.Verystudious, anddid extremely well at school,”she sighed softly. It was obvious she missed her daughter.“She wanted to be a doctor.”

“What happened?”I asked, curious as to how a girl who wanted to bea doctor ended up abandoning two children and disappearing off the face of the earth.

“She met a guy,”Elena replied, running a thumb soothingly over theback of my hand.“He was…I guess you could say he was a troubled soul.”

“He was a waste of damn space,”Helios interjected, a scowl on hisface.“To this day, I’ll never know what she saw in him, but he had his hooks in her, and no matter what we did to try and keep her away from him, he dug those hooks in further until all she could see was him.”