CHAPTER 226 — For the First Time, No Contracts

Milagros didn’t answer his question with words.

She simply kissed him again.

And that kiss was not only the end of his fear.

It was the beginning of a blind kind of trust, one that pierced his chest and made him feel vulnerable, yes…

but also, for the first time, deeply chosen.

She wasn’t giving herself only to Ayden.

She was choosing everything he was.

Even the parts of him he still didn’t fully understand.

He lifted her into his arms, feeling the