Dominic's Regret

Dominic Stone POV

The phone slipped from my hand and crashed to the floor.

"What do you mean the letters were never delivered?" I asked Marcus, my old Beta, who was calling from three states away.

"I'm cleaning out my old office, and I found them, Dom. All of them. Lily's letters to you from five years ago. They're still sealed." Marcus's voice was shaky. "Someone intercepted them before they ever reached you."

My heart stopped beating for a second. Letters. Lily had written me letters.

"How many?" I whispered.

"Seventeen. The first one is dated two weeks after she left town. The last one..." Marcus paused. "The last one is from the day Emma was born."

I sank into my office chair, my legs suddenly too weak to hold me up. For five years, I thought Lily had disappeared without a word. I thought she didn't want me to find her.

But she had been trying to reach me all along.