The Don Tore Up Our Divorce (Gemma and Cassian) novel Chapter 539

Chapter 539

Epilogue

Cassian’s POV

The villa is quiet now.

The windows are open to the evening air, and somewhere outside, the last birds are settling into their nests. The sun is setting over the lake, the water turning gold and rose, the same water where Candy got drunk and yelled at Jeremy, where everything began to shift.

I stand in the doorway of the nursery, watching.

cking chair by the window, her feet tucked hair loose over her shoulders. Lisa is in her

is of dark hair and sea green eyes, named for she has never met. Gemma rocks her slowly, mething low and sweet, and the baby’s eyes are lips parted, her tiny fingers curled into fists.

them for a long moment, not wanting to break the spell.

nk about the bullet… and how I would do it a hundred nes, a thousand, if it meant I got to stand in this doorway and

I think about the years I lost with the divorce, and the silent wall I put between us.

Every mistake, every wrong turn, every moment I thought I had lost her for good. Because it led me here, to this room, this woman, this child.

Gemma looks up. She smiles, that small, quiet smile I have learned to read in a hundred different ways.

“Come here,” she says.

I cross the room, kneel beside the rocking chair. Lisa stirs, then settles. She is a miracle I did not earn and will spend the rest of dmy life trying to deserve.

werdhan sinks lower. The lake turns gold, then orange, then the y even blue of early evening. Tomorrow, the fishing spot will be ecue will The barbecue will happen again next week. There will nts about arguments about fast food, more competitions between more nights me, more nights Zina gets too drunk and Jeremy

The stars come out over the lake. The room grows dark, lit only by the soft glow of the nightlight in the corner. Gemma’s humming slows, eventually stopping. Lisa sleeps on, her breathing small and steady.

I stay kneeling beside them, my hand in Gemma’s, my eyes on our daughter. The silence wraps around us, warm and complete.

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