Divorce me I'm done serving you (Ayla) novel Chapter 693

At first Ayla and Max kept things civil. Then James refused to talk, and she realized the situation was worse than she'd thought.

Her mind went to the children.

While she'd been away, Troy had mentioned the house surveillance was being replaced.

She hadn't doubted. Troy was there. Nobody in all of Trensea would dare touch the Winstons. And who in their right mind would go after two infants?

Floyd and Esme had been introduced to every prominent family in the city at their full moon celebration. Anyone with half a brain understood exactly how untouchable those babies were.

Troy had quietly mobilized every connection he had trying to find the children. Ayla barely had to dig at all before the picture became clear. The children were gone.

Ayla felt the fury hit her like a physical thing.

Gone. Right under Troy's watch. He couldn't even protect two infants, and then he'd had the nerve to say nothing to her, not a single word, for days.

She couldn't remember the last time she'd been this angry.

Max absorbed the news in silence, then turned and looked at James. He picked up the lamp and brought it down on his head, then pressed a hand to his shoulder and leaned in close, smiling pleasantly, eyes dead cold. "Draven took them, didn't he?"

James looked at Ayla, saw that she already knew, and gave up. "Draven said he was going to tell you himself once you were back from the trip. Since you already know, there's no point in me hiding it."

Then he turned on Max. "Ayla, if I'd known ahead of time I would have tried to stop it. Whether I could have actually stopped him is a different question."

He looked genuinely miserable. "I'm sorry. I mean it. If you want to hit me, go ahead. I don't know how it got to this point. I asked Draven to explain himself and got nothing."

Ayla's expression darkened with every word.

Max told James to stop talking.

James went quiet and stayed that way. This was the worst thing he'd ever done to a friend, and he knew it. He'd promised Ayla once that she could call on him for anything. The memory of that sat badly.

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