Chapter 8 - Four Years of Silence Finally Broke When Sebastian Asked Me to Marry Him Again in Front of Our ChildrenThe legal process took months.
The Vale criminal organization collapsed.
Legitimate businesses were separated.
Assets were frozen.
People went to prison.
Sebastian cooperated.
For the first time, he chose his family over power.
We moved to a quiet house outside the city.
The children loved it.
Grass.
A lake.
Dogs.
No guards inside.
No secrets.
One evening, Sebastian found me on the porch.
“Do you hate me?”
I looked at him.
“I hated what I believed you did.”
“And now?”
“I don't know.”
He nodded.
“I deserve that.”
He handed me a box.
Inside was my old wedding ring.
The ring he had given me four years earlier.
“I kept it.”
I couldn't speak.
“I'm not asking you to forget.”
He knelt.
“You were my wife before anyone knew it.”
He looked toward the children.
“I want to be your husband again.”
Tears filled my eyes.
“You can't erase what happened.”
“I know.”
“You can't give me four years back.”
“I know.”
“You can't promise nobody will ever hurt us again.”
“I can't.”
He took my hand.
“But I can promise that if someone tries, they will have to come through me.”
I laughed through tears.
“That's not exactly reassuring.”
He smiled.
Then Owen shouted from the yard.
“Daddy!”
Sebastian turned.
Ivy yelled:
“Mommy!”
Noah ran between them.
Sebastian looked at me.
“So?”
I looked at our children.
Then at him.
May you like
“Ask me again when we're not standing beside a flowerpot.”
He laughed.
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