Chapter 14 - Damian Asked Me to Stay at Grayhaven House Forever, but This Time He Wasn't Giving an Order—He Was Asking for a FamilyMonths passed.
Grayhaven House changed.
The forbidden door disappeared.
The guards stopped carrying weapons through the family hallways.
The staff laughed again.
Lila painted flowers on the kitchen wall.
Damian pretended to be angry.
He wasn't.
He watched her paint.
Then he added one himself.
A terrible-looking rabbit.
Lila laughed.
He smiled.
I realized I had fallen in love with him.
Not because he was powerful.
Not because he could protect us.
But because he had changed.
One evening, he gave me a small box.
Inside was a ring.
"I can't promise you a perfect life."
"I don't need one."
"I can't promise the past will disappear."
"I know."
"But I can promise that you and Lila will never have to face the future alone."
I looked at him.
"Damian..."
He took my hand.
"Will you stay?"
May you like
I smiled.
"Yes."
