ELIZABETH'S POV

I blinked rapidly, my lashes fluttering like they were trying to clear the confusion out of my eyes. For a second, I honestly thought my ears were playing tricks on me, or maybe the acoustics of this ridiculously fancy villa bounced the little girl’s words in a weird way. But no matter how I replayed it in my head, it still sounded like what I feared I heard.

  Did she just call Roman her dad?

  Or was I going insane?

  There was no possible way that could be true. Absolutely none. The news clearly said Lauren had been married to that man Ethan Black. If she had been...