KAIA
I hate the way the air feels when all three of them are looking at me. Heavy and suffocating like I’m already outnumbered.
Hailey stirs against my neck, a soft whimper that makes my arms tighten around her. I shouldn't have picked her up while she was still limp on the couch, but I needed to hold her against me. For my sanity.
My only job—my only damn job—is keeping her safe. And now I’ve got three strangers telling me she needs them to survive? Wolves or not, that doesn’t sit right with me.
“You’ve got some nerve,” I say, my voice low and a bit shaky. “Asking me to move in with you. My daughter is not some… some experiment you get to babysit.”
Maddox chuckles. “No one said babysit. We said ‘protect’.”
My chest burns, a mix of anger and something I don’t want to name. His eyes h
