Alpha Caden's POVThe silence inside the hospital room became heavier the moment Mila lifted her eyes to mine. The color had barely returned to her face after everything she had endured, yet there was still enough strength in her to ask the one question I had spent years dreading. Her fingers tightened around the edge of the blanket as though she already feared the answer before she even spoke. There was uncertainty in her eyes, but beneath it burned hope—a fragile hope that perhaps, after everything, she would finally know the truth about the woman who had brought her into this world. I stood rooted beside her bed, unable to breathe as memories I had buried clawed their way back to the surface. I saw laughter echoing through forgotten gardens, promises whispered beneath moonlit skies, blood staining white stone, and a pair of desperate eyes begging me to protect their child no matter the cost. Every promise I had made returned to haunt me in a single heartbeat, and for the first tim
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