Mine to Claim

Darius Thorne

I sat alone in my office, staring at the stack of papers before me without actually seeing them. My grip on the pen tightened as my thoughts twisted, catching on to a particular moment—Malachi’s smug words in the hospital parking lot. The smugness with which he claimed Cassia and the twins as his own set a fire burning in my chest, one that I couldn’t shake, no matter how much I told