Chapter 54: Either Her Or None

Leonardo A month later…… Father had declared that the pack wouldn't be handed to us unless we found Maya and our heir—that wasn't an issue. At this point in my life, I didn't care about anything else. I only wanted to get back to my Maya and pull her into my arms, begging her for forgiveness. I’d give everything away to get her back. But she was far away…. That night, when we got the letter, I didn't have the courage to read it then, and I still didn't and perhaps never would. I didn't know how I was supposed to just read it when I knew that every fucking word would only make me feel the pain she'd endured because of me and Max. Of course, we'd messed up, but we had been blind—or maybe we chose to be. Still, none of that justified our actions and our treatment towards her. She didn’t deserve any of that.. Any of the pain at all.  "We have thought so wrongly of her, Leo," Max sighed, burying his face in his hands, his words trembling. "She wasn't like her mother at all. The whole time s