Kaida
Returning from Silverclaw Ridge had left me feeling strangely content. My checkup had gone well—Doctor Cooper reassured me that the twins were developing healthily, despite the complications of my condition. The relief was immense, and even though I knew there was still a long road ahead, I allowed myself a moment to breathe.
But something else had shifted in me over the past few days, something I hadn’t expected. It was Bastian.
I had never thought I would feel this way toward him. After everything that had happened with Kaelen—how my world had crumbled at his feet, how I had been left shattered and pregnant—I hadn’t thought it possible to feel any kind of affection toward another man. Yet Bastian had surprised me.
He was nothing like Kaelen.
Where Kaelen had been cold and dist
