Mira's pov Three weeks passed in cautious, careful vigilance, our son growing steadily stronger while the investigation into Victor Kaine crawled forward at an agonizingly slow pace, every lead dissolving into another dead end just as quickly as it appeared. "We named him," I reminded Alder one quiet evening, watching him rock our son gently by the nursery window, the soft lamplight catching the exhaustion still lingering under his eyes, "but I still can't quite believe he's actually here. After everything." "Neither can I," Alder admitted softly, pressing a gentle kiss to the baby's forehead, his voice thick with something he still hadn't fully let go of. "Every time I look at him, I think about how close we came to losing everything that night." "But we didn't," I said, moving to stand beside him. "We survived. All three of us." Kade appeared in the doorway then, exhaustion and quiet contentment mingling on his face as he'd been spending nearly every evening here lately, some ca
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