I asked. Lily slowly shook her head. My chest went cold. For fifteen years, I had built myself into a man people feared.
Ryker Steel didn’t hesitate. Ryker Steel didn’t soften. Ryker Steel didn’t get involved unless power, money, or blood demanded it.
But those two children sat there like they had already been forgotten.
And something inside me broke. “Do you know where your father is?” I asked.
Owen’s lip trembled. “He died,” Lily said quietly. “She said we were too much trouble now.”
Marco muttered a curse behind me. I looked toward the closed boarding door, then back at the twins.
Their stepmother thought she had disappeared into the sky. She was wrong.
I pulled out my phone and made one call. “Stop that plane,” I said. “And find the woman in the beige coat.”
Lily’s small hand slipped into mine. And that was the moment I decided they would never be left behind again.
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