Nothing alright. Angry at the ilmsight of what the woman could be tiguto, Emmune ton gently pushed her aside. Only for my jaw to drop open when I kaw precisely what she’il been shirlding from my view. Directly behind her was a wooden craille 1 remember red from my childhood, the one Layla Laid washeroni cradle. And directly in the center of the cradle, swallowed by a blanker, was the tiniest creature Elever seen.
“Ababy!” Froared in disbelief at the thought of what the woman had been trying to keep me from seeing “Did you think you can get away with luding a baby in this dungeon?”
wins protested feebly
My glareared right into her. “I don’t understand what? That you’ve been lurking down here for goddess only knows how long, hiding this innocent baby from silu.”
Liva dropped her heal in dejection, a wealth of sadness shimmered in her eyes. “I know this might seem ton cruel to you, but that is because you aren’t seeing the liigger picture here. This isn’t just my baby before you, she’s differris. Not normal”
My anger of a moment ago turned to full–blown rage at the words tumbling out of her mouth. Hatred blossomed inside of me as I listened to her, her thoughts where this clubd was concerned. Lcould well imagine those were the same words spoken to my parents when the doctor explained hy mon differences. In the face of das innocent child, all Leould think about was a younger me, forced to endure the cruelties of others. All the years of pain and anger came rushing to the fore, reminding me of all the anguish and have I suffered.
fu the blink of an eye, Lappeared before the woman, unable to miss the startled look in her eyes. Was she afraid of met A hand clamped around the slender cokime of her throat, lifting her a good font off thar ground. “I should kill you where you stand. No one, no child, should be cast aside and forgotten no matter how different they are. Every child is a miracle.”
“Not any choice,” dar rasped thickly.
“Then who’s Idemanded.
A presence appeared. That her down, Vonnyal.”
i whipped around at the new voice that entered the room’s silence, belonging to none other than Kadden it seemed at some point he had returned hour and was presently standing in the room’s doorway. A rucon he didn’t seem to be unaware of, nor was he surprised by the scene awaiting him. His lack of shock gave me the answers I’d been looking for, a puined expression on my face, “You! You put them here?”
“Macher down,” he ordered again.
My grasp immediately released my hold of Lisa, allowing the woman to crumble to a beap on the flour. Vehemently I shook my head, trying to deny the truth Hease tell me this hurt your own doing. That you didn’t hide this woman and child inside of quia room.
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“Thave my reasons” he assured in
That in well assured me of everything that I needed to know, confronting a realy Ed wanted to reject Kadden was surprised in dirir presente because he was the one who’d placed them there. I snarled. “You’re more of a monster than I ever thought possible. I could never allow myself to be bonded to someone like you. I promise I will find a way to break it.”
Then stormed out.
Oner inside my private bedroom, I cursed the day I ever decided to come back to this place. As much as cursed the goddess who’d chosen to me mated to the cold–hearted bastard Alpha Kadden was
o have
It was sometime in the twilight hours when I again found myself standing before the door to the unground nursery. I knew this ir as the last place I should be right now, but I couldn’t seem to keep away from thus place. From the chill inside. That innocent baby had touched me deeper than Ed ever dreamed possible, a kindred spirit I understood. Because eighteen years ago it’d been me inside of that cradle, no one willing to accept the
strange creature I was.
I pushed open the door.
“You shouldn’t be here,” Lisa attempted to dispute my presence in the room, though she didn’t seem surprised. “Alpha Kadden doesn’t think it wise for you to be around her.”
Blatantly ignoring the woman’s protest of my presence, I walked into the quiet nursery. Avoiding the looks of the woman, I stepped around her and went to the cradle in the room. Standing at the side I peered down at the child who lay there, my heart breaking at the sight. Being the tiniest creature I’d ever before seen, it didn’t look more than a few pounds and had skin as white as snow. Which was a direct contrast to the crop of modnight black hair that sprouted out of the top of the head
“Boy or girl?” I asked.
“Girl.” she offered.
Bending over the edge of the cradle against the protests of the woman, a finger brushed down the side of a tiny cheek. “Hello Angel, my name is Von.” Eyelids slowly Bunered open at the contact of my hand, proof the child was aware of my presence. Her eyes were almost yellow. “My little Sunshine.”
“Please,” Lisa became almost hysterical in her attempts to dissuade me from my coune of action tonight. “You are angry because you don’t understand the sattustion. Talk to His Majesty, he will explain the child to you.”
“Why don’t you touch her?” I found myself asking rather than focusing on the woman’s fear, aware there was a reason. I was determines to find out why Are you afraid of her!!
The nursemaid took a step back from the cradle. “Yes, Lam, Just as you will be when you learn the truth of what she really is Now please my lady, it has to be this way
“It’s okay Lisa,” Alpha Kadden entered the conversation, announcing has presence inside of the room. He placed a hand on her shoulder, to calm the uncertainty and fear. “You are free to rest up for a while. I will handle this.“
She bowed to him. “She deserves the truth.”
