The End+Epilogue

- Damon White:

I stood there, frozen, as Nikolai's words echoed in my ears. "I'm pregnant." The shock of it hit me like a freight train.

I hadn't expected this. I had been bracing myself for anything, but not this.

A child. Our child.

The moment the words left Nikolai's lips, I felt my heart drop.

The room seemed to shift around me as if time slowed down just to let me process everything.

Pregnant.

I blinked, staring at Nikolai, at Alexei, at Dimitri—- at all of them, but I couldn't shake the wave of guilt and regret that immediately flooded me.

In an instant, I was back to that dark place in my mind.

The years of violence, the bloodshed, the destruction.

I had hurt Nikolai so much, and I had been so lost in my rage and confusion that I never stopped to think about the consequences.

The pain I caused.

The lives I destroyed.