Damien returned home with a huge bruise on his face. When Ash sees this, she is immediately drenched with worry. “Damien what the heck?” Ash rushed towards him and observed the wound on his face. “Who did this?!”“Don’t worry.” He replied to her gently. “It wasn’t the Sumerkis who did this to me.”“Then who did?” “Richard.” He loosened his tie and ushered the woman to sit with him on the couch. “I had a fight with him earlier. He couldn’t help it.”“Your cheek is swelling.” Ash sighed at him. “Was he the one who punched you first?”“Yes.” Damien couldn’t tell her that he was defending her from Richard’s slander. “This wound is nothing. His fists were weak. I felt nothing at all.”“Stop being cocky.” Ash chuckled at him and then took a first aid kit from a nearby drawer. “So if I pressed it, it wouldn’t hurt at all?”“I’d rather you don’t.” Damien shrugged. “How are you feeling?”“I’m good.” Ash smiled at him. “No morning sickness at all?”“None.” She smiled back. “Feels just like a

Ash’s eyes grew as soon as the other person in the line said that. Her grip on the phone tightened and her chest starts beating irrationally. “Don’t you fucking dare hurt my brother!”“Then come get him and bring your husband with you. We can have a little chat. That’s all we’ve ever wanted.”Ash clenched her fists and took a deep breath. “Let me talk to him first.”“No. That’s not the deal. Come here and we will give you your brother, hm?”“You’re dumb, aren’t you? Calling me to bribe me into fetching my brother saying you want to talk? You want to rain bullets over Damien.”There was laughing in the other line. Ash seethed her teeth. She could tell they were in a big room, and there were many members of Parliament behind the call. And they’re treating her like a laughingstock. “We’ll see you here, right?”“That depends if you’ll let me hear my brother. You have nothing to lose if you give the phone to him, right?”She could hear him consulting with the other members of the Parliam

“Are they coming?”The Parliament Palace of Kravska was preparing for Damien Blackwell to arrive in their premises. Yuri was still in the basement, getting beaten up severely. He was pretending to be unconscious but he could hear everything that the Parliament goons were saying.“Boss what if they’re not coming?” Their parliament boss mockingly laughed. “What if they’re not coming?! Bwahahaha! Then we’ll give Czar a taste of his own medicine! We’ll sell him to the highest bidder.”Human trafficking. This was what the mafia and the shady people of the government were good at. Yuri clenched his jaw at the idea of him being sold to the population of the unusual and odd people. He couldn’t digest the things they would do to him. Probably even worse than just beating— he reckoned.“Damien Blackwell not arrived yet?”“No sign, boss.”“Hah. I don’t blame him. It’d be stupid if he bites on our request. He’s not that dumb. Nevertheless, who cares if he comes or not? We have Yuri anyway.”“Ther

Ash and the others waited patiently in the airport for Damien and the others to come. The girl was hopeful as it had been all over the news that the Parliament had suddenly declared to revoke their positions after a decade of sitting in the throne. She still didn’t know how he was able to pull it off.“Their plane has arrived. They just called.” Noel told them as he approached them. “Yuri is with them as well.”Aleksei and Ash gave a breath of relief and hopefully looked at one another before smiling. They all waited at the entrance anxiously until a group of black-coated men finally emerged. Several cameras immediately flash as Damien Blackwell finally arrives back in the country. He spanned his eyes around and saw his family waving at him. Beside him were Sherlock, Shireen and Yuri. Yuri was slouching, and his eyes were lifeless. He had tons of bandages around his body, but nevertheless, one could not explain why Yuri remained to look so dashing even with so many scars.They say it

“Easy, brother.” Aleksei handed a glass of water to Yuri and smacked his back repeatedly. Yuri consumes all of it in one gulp and slams the glass back onto the table, causing the plates to jump for a short second. He gave Damien a strict and then it turned into horror when he looked at Ash.“Are you actually being serious right now? You’re not tripping me?”“Having a baby should have been more surprising that Damien and I getting married.” Ash sighed. “So you don’t consent?”“I just think it’s too fast.” Yuri palmed his face and shook his head repeatedly. “If if they postpone it, there won’t be any time.” His brother whispered to him. “They’re both adults, they have known each other for the longest time, and Ash knows Damien more than anyone else does since she protected him when he was still serving in the orphanage.”“And besides…” he then pointed at Ash’s stomach. “…the baby’s about to be born.”“There still nine months—”“Six.” Ash corrected him. “Six months until my child is born