Kade’s POV
When the child wrapped her tiny fist around Kade’s finger and held his gaze as if silently daring him to take her out into the wilds, Kade knew he had just lost.
Dammit.
This baby was the one thing that Samantha had left behind for him. If Samantha was dead—well and truly dead, and all of the moments he’d wondered if the ex-rogue girl in Nightshade who looked like her was actually her were mere wishful thinking and denial—then all he had left of the bond they had unwittingly shared was this child.
Perhaps Kade had never loved Samantha. Perhaps she had ruined his life.
But this child… This child was completely innocent. She wasn’t a bad omen. She was just a little girl who no longer had a mother and whose father was actually considering leaving her out in the wilds.
“Alpha
