Chapter 247

Kane's POV

I wake with a violent jerk, the sun relentlessly stabbing my eyes. Groaning, I swallow against my sandpaper tongue and struggle upright. I have the mother of all hangovers, and I regret my decision to go on a bender last night.

Somehow, we ended up spending the night in my mother’s apartment. Minutes after we left, she came storming up to us, livid that I didn’t summon her the moment Narcissa broke into our flat. Even if I lived to become as old as Zael, I would never have expected my mother to change this much.

I am not quite sure if it is because of Willow, Adare’s birth, or because my father is dead and she is finally free to be herself, but I don’t want to question it too much.

As soon as we walked into her apartment, my mother gave Willow something to help her sleep, and shooed her off to bed, sitting next to my mate and son while they slept, keeping vigil over them.

I found a bottle of whiskey in my mother's liquor cabinet, took two glasses and walked out to the p