Caspian pov : There is psychological shift that occurs within a man when he realizes he is going to be a father. It rewrites your DNA. It aggressively reconfigures every single priority you have ever held. But when that realization occurs simultaneously with the absolute, horrific trauma of almost losing your pregnant mate to a demonic shadow army. It completely, irrevocably shatters your sanity and replaces it with an extreme, borderline psychotic level of paranoia. I was no longer just the Alpha. I stood at the massive, reinforced glass window of my private office on the third floor of the Silver Moon Estate, looking down at the sprawling, heavily fortified courtyard. It had been exactly thirty-six hours since we had dragged Silas Vane entirely to hell and carried our Queen back

