A Dominant Salvation (A Dominant Series Book 3) by Lena Black

Author:Lena Black [Black, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lena Black
Published: 2017-02-13T18:30:00+00:00

Christmas morning, Damian and I cook everyone a large pancake breakfast and then we exchange gifts. Maya and Caleb seem to have worked through some of their issues the night before. It wasn’t perfect.

It was better.

We fly home the next morning, greeted by Liam at the airport. He drives us back to Artemis, reporting the goings-on of the last few days. Luckily, nothing went awry while we were gone.

When we arrive home, Sloan is on the couch waiting for us.

“Can I speak with you both?” she asks, twirling the ends of her cherry red hair anxiously. She appears nervous, terrified even, her fair skin a nearly ghost white.

“Of course,” I answer, “you can always come to us.”

She tears up and lets out a shuddered breath.

“What’s wrong, red?” Hunt inquires with a furrowed brow, using his little nickname for her.

I walk over to her and take a seat beside her on the couch.

“I don’t know how to put this.” She tilts her head forward, and I toss my arm about her back.

“Please, Sloan, tell us. You’re really starting to scare me.”

“I-I came to a decision.”

“Okay,” I say in a way as if to suggest she further on her statement.

“You’ve both been so great with me, and my…situation. I can never repay you for all you’ve done.”

“There’s no need to worry because there’s nothing to repay,” Damian says, moving over to the other side of the C-shaped couch and taking a seat.

“You’ve given me so much and offered so much more. But…”

“But?”

“But I will no longer be a burden to either of you,” she sputters out finally.

I shut my eyes and shake my head, trying to make sense of her ramblings. “I don’t understand.”

“I have to agree with Gabrielle. I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to tell us.”

She takes a breath, steeling herself. “I’ve decided to give the babies up for adoption.”

I shoot Damian a terrified look. The saddened disbelief in his eyes and Sloan’s heartache is more than I can bear. We’ve come to love these unborn bundles, excited for their arrival into this world. And, now it will be a day of heartbreak.

“I would like your help deciding on a good couple to take them in.”

The thought of those beautiful babies taken away by strangers knocks the breath right of me, like a baseball bat to the gut. We’ve been there for them, Sloan and the babies, watching them grow, taking her to every appointment, and falling in love with them with each passing day.

Tears swell in my eyes, and my chest burns as hot lumps of emotion rise into my throat.

I turn to Hunt, my husband and Dom for assurance and guidance, but he seems to have fallen victim to the horrible notion as well.

“Damian,” I whisper with panic in my voice, pleading for him to take control, to fix this, to say something, anything.

I want him to make this better.

“We’ll help you with whatever you need,” he says, emotionlessly, and my heart shatters into a million tiny fragments.

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