An Empty Nursery

Radix murdering the child of the Fallen and their alpha, had been something the knights had blissfully refused to consider up to that point.

Sebastian had offered to protect the child, to keep it at WaterRose and safely from Radix. But Deragan’s response had dashed that meager idea.

“And have me explain to him how I could not protect his mother, and now he must go on without one? As I go on without her?” He’d shaken his head. “No, my brothers, I cannot.”

They’d all looked at him sorrowfully.

“And what if said child, were not born immortal as we are, but doomed to die as my Fallen always does? It would be my worst fear, even worse than losing my mate, to outlive my child and then wonder if they might return, and as whom? As whose child, that I would not get to raise?”

A dreadful thought.

“You see, I can barely survive the loss of her… How could I do that?”

It was easy to see Deragan’s point.

They’d all acknowled