Chapter 85

Nora POV

Tiny hands wrap around my legs and pull me out of the past so violently that I gasp.

“Mama.”

I look down, blinking, my heart still somewhere years ago, still standing in my living room with divorce papers shaking in my hands. My daughter presses her cheek against my thigh, warm and solid and real, her hair tickling my skin.

“Mommy, you’re squeezing too tight,” she mumbled into my thigh, voice muffled by the silk of my dress.

I loosened my grip right away. “Sorry, baby. Mommy got lost in her thoughts for a second.”

She tilted her face up, sleepy eyes huge. “Were you thinking about dragons again?”

“Something like that.” I smoothed her hair behind one ear. “Go on, back under the covers. I already read you two chapt