Alex's POV

It's been two weeks now since Nicolai told me the whole truth about the mark on his hip and the curse associated with it.

I was still hurt he had kept something as serious as that from me but deep down I could understand why he would do that. Aside the fact that he was already heaping on me the news of his abuse, he probably didn't want to upset me more by telling me that there was a possibility that we could never truly be parents of our biological children.

I had been devastated. It was as if a part of me had been ripped out of...