Wildest Dreams by Giana Darling

Author:Giana Darling [Darling, Giana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2022-08-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Bianca

Most people spent their entire lives wishing for their dreams to come true, but no one ever wondered what would happen once they did. When we’d reached our goal or achieved our happily ever after. Was everything you went through to get there worth it? Did it last?

Was it everything you thought it would be?

I’d dreamed my whole life of being enfolded into the heart of the Constantine clan, but the reality was incredibly sobering.

I was heartbroken, lost, and alone in the rambling mansion taking up acres of prime, perfectly groomed real estate in Bishop’s Landing. What was left of my heart after Tiernan Morelli broke my trust remained back at Lion Court with my baby brother, Brandon.

I’d never, not once in my life, been separated from him before now.

It was day eight without him.

Caroline assured me her lawyers were working on transferring custodianship of Brando and myself to her, but even her cutthroat, hundreds-of-dollars-an-hour lawyers couldn’t strike a compromise with Tiernan.

Caroline seemed almost disturbingly unfazed by the proceedings, but I grew more distressed by the hour.

How could I trust Tiernan to take care of the most precious being in my life? Even though we’d lived there for months, long enough for the entire household to know how to handle Brandon’s epilepsy, I worried endlessly. I’d started to pick at my hangnails until they bled, which Caroline told me was a filthy habit, but I couldn’t seem to stop.

The only thing that kept me from panicking was that Walcott was keeping me up to date on Brando and I had a daily call with my baby brother over the phone every night before he went to bed. Apparently, they’d lied and told my him that I was away on a last-minute holiday, so he wasn’t even concerned about me, thank God. I wanted him to stay happy and oblivious until I could get everything sorted out for us to be together again.

The compound was disturbingly empty even though Christmas was fast approaching, and Caroline told me most of the kids would be home for the holidays. I was both excited and sick to my stomach at the thought of meeting them.

In my fantasies, Brandon was with me, and they knew exactly who we were to them.

Now, I was alone, and Caroline told everyone she introduced me to that I was a “friend of the family.” I should have been honored to be taken in by the matriarch of one of the most beautiful and formidable families in the country, but there was something…off about her. A coldness that nothing could permeate. If I hadn’t clasped her hand and felt the warmth of blood in her veins, I would have believed she was a beautiful robot.

It was clear she expected the same behavior from me.

I adjusted uncomfortably in the high-back wooden chair at the colossal dining room table. Caroline had given me some of her daughter Tinsley’s old clothes, but they were too tight across the bust and hips, cutting into my skin in a way that made me feel self-conscious.

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