A REPLACEMENT FOR ALPHA KAEL
A tangle of them all, knotted tightly around his chest.
“I thought… I might find you here,” he said quietly, voice low enough that the wind alone carried it.
I turned slowly to face him, feeling the sunlight glint off my hair, the fire beneath my skin calm, tamed, no longer desperate to assert itself. My son stirred in my arms, the soft weight of him a grounding pulse, reminding me why I had walked away from everything.
“You did,” I said simply.
Kael’s gaze dropped to the child. For the first time, his eyes softened fully, unshielded by the demands of power, of law, of title. “He’s… incredible,” he said. “You’ve… done something no one thought possible.”
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