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PROLOGUE
Aria
I stare out of the big windows, looking at nothing. Seeing nothing. My heart pounds, nausea hitting me as I listen to my sister, Thalia. We are in Italy and have just gotten her back after she was taken. And now she’s telling me it had something to do with my bodyguard, Bishop—or Xander, as the men who took her called him—the man I love.
“He said he loves you,” Thalia whispers.
A tear falls, and I swipe at it. Words mean nothing to me right now.
Confusion, fear, anxiety, and anger are the predominant emotions running through me. Crippling me.
Who took Thalia?
What does Bishop have to do with it?
Why’s his cell out of use?
What the fuck am I going to do?
He left me.
He fucking left me.
After the last couple of months of him being hot and cold and pushing me away, his disappearance should not come as a surprise, but it does.
I thought everything was finally good between us.
We even discussed telling my parents about our relationship when we got back to New York. That had to mean something, right?
It did to me.
Bishop, or whatever the hell his name is, not so much. He’s gone without a trace. Without so much as an explanation. A goodbye.
A choked sob breaks free, and in an instant, Thalia’s arms are around me. I almost laugh at the irony. My sister was kidnapped, and yet she is the one comforting me.
He told Thalia that he loved me.
But if you love someone, you don’t just disappear without telling them.
My mind races as I fidget with my fingers, and my knee bounces.
What am I going to do?
Truth is, I had some news for him. News I hoped would make him happy and solidify our relationship.
I missed my period. But because of the stress and the ups and downs of the last few months, I put it down to that. That was until I started getting sick.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally faced what was most likely the real reason for being sick and missing my period. I took a pregnancy test.
It came back positive. It was later confirmed by my doctor in New York that I was, in fact, three months pregnant.
I was going to tell him the happy news the day Thalia was taken. It was a hot day in June, and I had arranged for us to go for a moonlit walk on the beach and would tell him everything. Obviously, that didn’t happen, and now, he’s gone. His cell is disconnected, and there’s no way for me to find him. Needing to release some of my pent-up anxiety, I blurt the words I haven’t said out loud to anyone. Words that the man I love should have heard first.
“I’m pregnant.”
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ARIA
