Natalia
“We don’t have to go, you know.” Damon gave me a meaningful look. “You’ve been through a lot lately. If this is too much—”
“No. We should go.” The thought of visiting the house that I had once lived in, the mansion I had once thought to be my lifelong home, didn’t exactly fill me with joy. Not after everything that had happened.
But our alliance was new and tentative, and it was best to keep up appearances.
“I signed up for this when I proposed the alliance,” I pointed out, tossing the invitation onto the kitchen counter. “This is how we secure our future—and the twins’. By playing nice.”
Damon looked like he wanted to argue, but he didn’t. He just looked at me for a moment, skeptical, then nodded. “Very well. We’ll go. But if any funny business happens like what happened at t
