Chapter 219

“Willow,” someone whispers in my ear and wipes hair from my face.

Groggy and confused, my heart beats wildly in my chest as I battle to open my eyes. “No, daddy, please, not tonight,” I say.

“It’s me,” Kane says in his calm, comforting voice.

I manage to drag my eyelids apart and look up at my mate who is trying to hold on to a squirming baby. In an instant, the anxiety lifts, but it takes a while for my heart to slow back down. “I’m sorry,” I mumble.

“No need to be sorry,” he says. “Bad dream?”

“I don’t know,” I yawn and push myself upright. “Is he hungry?”

“Yes, but I’ll try the bottle again.”

“Still won’t take it, huh?”

“Hm-hm.”

“Give him here, it’s fine.”

Kane hands Adare over to me, and the baby hungrily goes for my breast. “I think it’s time to start him on solids.”

“Not until six months,” I say.

“Reading about human babies again?”

“It’s not like there’s a parenting manual for werewolf babies.”

He laughs and climbs over me to his side of the bed. “We don’t need one,