Broken Kingdom (Corium University, #3)

by C. Hallman

“Then this will be even better.” He cups my cheek. “I love you. I always will. You’re the only thing I care about in this world. You have my name, but you’ve had my heart much longer than that. And I intend to devote the rest of my life to you. My wife.”

“Clyde Mather wasn’t Aspen’s biological father,” Lucas tells everyone at the table. “I am.”

“We do what needs doing for one of our own.” One of his own.

I don’t know what I did to deserve her, but I plan to spend every breath from now until my last earning her love.

I have to remind myself I belong here, with these people, in this world. I’m Aspen Rossi.

Family… I almost can’t believe it. Every day I wait for the moment when I find out this was all a dream.

It’s almost too good to be true, all of it. I didn’t dream it would ever happen to me. Being loved. Cherished. Protected and valued.