AMELIA
I stared in shock at the documents of my old birth certificate, the new one with unknown parents, and my marriage certificate under my old name spread across his desk in his home office.
Lucius was telling the truth all this time. My blood turned ice in my veins. What I didn’t see was my death certificate.
I glanced over at Ryden and examined his expression for a moment. His eyes shadowed with despair and uncertainty, and then I dropped my gaze back to the documents, losing words to say to make him feel better. I shouldn’t have dug these up because I knew what would this mean for us.
“Why do you need these?”
“I wanted to know if he was telling the truth, and part of me wanted to know who I was in my past life.” I reached out for his hand. “These documents won’t mean anything b
