Chapter 80

DOMINIC’S POV I froze. “What?” “She slipped near the training ground. Hit her head. It’s bad. She’s bleeding. She might need stitches,” Elias said in one breath. Time stopped for a second. I clenched my jaw and immediately looked down at my watch. I still had time. Barely—but enough if I moved fast. I cursed under my breath and exhaled sharply, my hand already reaching for the door. The weight of the moment pressed down hard. I had been so close to leaving—to stepping into the sunlight for once without the shadows of the past trailing behind me. A simple day with my kids. Their birthday. Their first birthday with me in their lives. And now this. Evelyn. The one person who had once meant something to me. The one who kept showing up when I least wanted her to. The one I’d already told—no, warned—to stay out of my way. But this wasn’t about feelings. Or the chaos she stirred whenever Olivia was involved. This was blood. Injury. Shock. And I knew Evelyn. She didn’t do well with blood. The