24 - Sabotaged

~Ben’s Point of View~

I’d busied myself all day helping with the children, doing all I could to keep occupied. Lilly even sought me out at one point, and basically told me to just go for it. Just mark Meadow. That the whole family was on my side. Like I’d ever do it without her consent, and risk her hating me for all our years.

I did all I could to try and wrap my mind around it all. See things from Meadow’s perspective. I knew she was lost, not ready to be a mother. That didn’t bother me at all, we had plenty of time. If she thought I’d be upset about it I just had to assure her that wasn’t the case.

As desperate of course as I was to see her with a growing belly, to see our legacy cemented in time, there was nothing more important to me than her heart. I would have a great deal of time to learn about raising a shifter, but for Meadow the learning curve would be instant. A baby might not have strong magical powers yet, but it will have abilities it doesn’t yet understand or know w