The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega
He had taken to Lirian, too, with a gruff, unexpected tenderness that reminded Cassian, achingly, of the son Dorran had left behind at the castle, a boy he spoke of rarely but whose absence clearly weighed on him through the long winter evenings.
Elias, meanwhile, had settled into a role Cassian found harder to name precisely, something beyond healer, beyond ally, something that had grown slowly through months of shared labor and quiet evening conversation into a companionship Cassian found himself both grateful for and faintly uneasy about, given everything else still occupying his heart.
"You're thinking of him again," Elias said quietly, not quite a question, his eyes fixed on the fire ra