KAI POV
I was absentmindedly stroking Lilly’s hair, her little body curled on top of me like I was the only thing keeping her tethered to this world.
Maybe I was.
She had fallen asleep hours ago, drooling against my chest with a trust that made my heart ache. Not because it was inconvenient, not because it was uncomfortable—but because I knew that kind of trust had a price. And some part of me suspected she’d already paid too much for it.
Still, I couldn’t stop watching her. Or touching her. My fingers brushed lazy circles into her curls while my eyes flicked between Dalton’s laptop and my mates.
Dalton had set the software in motion a while ago, coding like a man possessed. His green eyes were sharp, electric, and his fingers flew over the keyboard with a kind of graceful violence I
