Natalia
My stomach dropped as the photographers, apparently having somehow heard of my return to Moonshadow, crowded closer to Andrei’s car. This was exactly what I’d been afraid of. What had I been thinking, bringing the twins here? They didn’t deserve to be hounded by reporters just because their parents had a complicated history.
“It’s alright,” Andrei said quietly, noticing the way my hands shook as I unbuckled my seatbelt.
But it didn’t feel alright. It felt like a mistake. A huge, terrible mistake that was going to traumatize my children more than they already were and probably end up splashed across every gossip magazine in the territories.
I could already picture the headlines, the rumors, the speculation. The twins would grow up with this following them everywhere, whispers a
