MAYA

Silas didn't answer.

“Even if her baby is yours?”

He finally spoke. “If that child were mine, knowing Viktor, he wouldn't treat it the same way.”

“What do you mean?”

“He hid Nora for most of her life,” Silas said. “Isabella's child wouldn't suddenly become the public Blackwood heir just because she got pregnant. Knowing Viktor, he'd keep the child out of the spotlight.”

And still expect mine to be the one the Blackwoods put on display.

The realization made my stomach turn.

“So that's why Isabella brought up Nora being your half-sister downstairs.”

Maybe that was why she'd gone this far too. A baby tied her to Silas...