Chapter 90. A Mother's Love

"Don't you understand? I never saw the creature that was in my room again. We have no way of knowing its identity."

"I'll find out. I'm going to get this information from the creature he freed, and I'm going to love every torment, every pain I impose on this creature, while he tells me everything he knows."

Luc didn't seem to hear Giovanna. He was concentrating as she spoke, his gaze vacant, and when she finished, he turned his hurt gaze on her.

"So... He's the one you love! If all the gods are still trapped, even with the birth of Gaius, does that mean..."

"No. It doesn't mean anything. Caio would have had to go through a ritual, which I would remember if it had happened. But I love Theo, yes. Just as I love you."

"And yet, even though you love me, even though I'm Caio's real father, and we could be happy together, you're going to choose him? Again?"