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Chapter 6

King Gaius p.o.v

The infant girl was barely larger than our daughter Hilda had been clutching to her chest, and she couldn't have been older than a few weeks.

I reached into the cradle and lifted her up, taking care to keep her swaddled tightly in the blanket.

She blinked up at me in confusion, but didn't start crying.

It was peculiar, I decided, to be holding something so tiny yet so full of life.

Her vibrant blue eyes studied me before they closed and she cuddled into my embrace.

"Oh, look, it likes you," Harry said mockingly.

He leaned against the far wall.

His black eyes raked over the child in contempt.

I wasn't surprised;

Harry had never really cared for living things.

"Where did you get her?"

It wasn't important to me, but I recalled Harry saying a soldier had brought her to the castle.

I wondered where the man would have discovered such a young child that she didn't have anyone else to care for her.

"My men were raiding a known wolf pack and they found the human baby
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