His Ruthless Redemption (Isabella and Dominic) novel Chapter 244

“Hm?”

“You’re not paying attention.”

“I am.”

“No.” He folded his little arms. “The dragon just stole your patient’s toothbrush.”

I looked down at the scene in front of me.

Apparently my dinosaur dental clinic had indeed been robbed. “This city has terrible crime.”

Mateo nodded gravely. “It really does.”

“So what do we do?”

He thought for several seconds. Then grinned. “We build a dinosaur police station.”

“Obviously.”

Before I could move, laughter floated in from the hallway.

I looked up.

Isabella.

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She had stopped in the doorway without either of us noticing. She wasn’t laughing loudly anymore, just smiling softly, watching us.

For one brief, beautiful moment, she looked like the Isabella I’d fallen in love with years ago, not because the sadness was gone, it wasn’t, I doubted either of us would ever be quite the same after losing Aspen. But for those few seconds, she wasn’t carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.

She was simply watching her boys play dinosaurs.

Mateo noticed her a second later. “Mama!” He jumped up immediately. “You have to help.”

She laughed. “I’m not sure I know enough about dinosaur dentistry/

“You don’t have to.” He grabbed her hand too. “You can be the mayor.”

She looked at me helplessly.

I lifted both hands. “I don’t make the rules.”

“I noticed.”

Within moments, she was sitting beside us on the rug.

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Mateo immediately began explaining the city’s extremely complicated political structure.

Apparently the dragons had recently signed a peace treaty. The herbivores were in charge of agriculture. The carnivores collected taxes.

I had absolutely no idea where he came up with any of it.

But Isabella listened as though he were presenting the budget for Parliament.

Every now and then she’d ask him another question, a serious one, encouraging him to keep going. It was one of the things I’d always loved most about her.

She never spoke down to him. She treated his imagination with the same respect she gave architects, CEOs and politicians, as though every story he invented deserved to be heard.

Watching them together, I found myself wondering if this was what heaven looked like. Or at least mine did. A place where the people you loved were safe, where laughter came easily, where the hardest decision of the day was whether dragons should be allowed to pay taxes.

I wished I’d understood years ago that this was all I’d ever really wanted. Not power or influence or fear. Just this. This tiny apartment. This ridiculous dinosaur city. This woman. This little boy.

If someone had offered me the entire Russo empire in exchange for this moment, I would’ve laughed in their face.

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