The Fated Mate Rebellion
Still, the way he did when information was arriving that required full attention.
"Knox told me something before the fight," she said. Her eyes held his without flinching, and through the bond he felt the weight of what she was carrying, not new weight, something she had been holding since before the bout, deciding when to put it down. "I have a daughter. Four years old. Her name is Kenzie. "A breath, controlled and deliberate. "Knox has been raising her since she was born. As a ward."
The words reached him one by one rather than all at once.