Can’t Win Me Back

In his deep sleep, Winston furrowed his brows tightly, and his fingers twitched reflexively.

Perhaps he was dreaming, or perhaps it was a telepathic connection with his daughter, Alyssa.

"Was Mom...

a member of the royal family?" Liam held his breath.

Alyssa shook her head.

"I don't know.

Even if she were and got chased out for some reason, there wouldn't be absolutely no record of her.

"So, I'm guessing that she might have been someone from the palace or someone connected to the royal family.

However, I'm not sure about the specifics.

After all, we aren't familiar with the situation in Kontina at all.

"There's one thing I'm sure of, though." Her eyes gleamed with a cold intensity as she clasped her hands together.

"There was probably some kind of grudge between Mom and the Kontinian royal family that forced her into exile.

"By some miraculous chance, she ended up in Belbanks, and of all people, Dominic saved her." The word "grudge" hit Liam like a sharp, invisible knife.

showered us with love, and he let

though we're from a wealthy family, he never pressured us into

up in Liam's eyes as he knelt beside Winston's bed, holding

so against

is worth exploring,

something dark in Mom's

reaction." Upon hearing that, Alyssa

had been exceptionally lenient with his and Jennifer's five children,

contrast, he was stricter with Mandy's and

marriage to someone from Kontina, tried to arrange a marriage alliance for Tatiana with

he treated his five

put

with Doctors Without Borders or

one Winston loved the most, and he extended that love

in love with her, why did he have to marry time and time again? If Jennifer reciprocated Winston's love and their life was blissful, why did she allow him to marry again and again? Why didn't she stop him and even become close to his other wives? Alyssa was also a woman, yet she

humans have always

wouldn't have been able to live through those days of polygamy unless there was no love

"If there really was

will have a

her anymore." Liam's breathing hitched as he fought

raspy and trembling voice, he continued, "Before it's all

to sacrifice your happiness based