Selene's POV
Abel's question hit me somewhere I wasn't prepared for.
Not because it was unexpected, not entirely, but because of the way he said it. Without accusation. Without the cold, clipped distance he had carried the last time this subject had come up between us. This was different.
I looked at him for a moment without answering.
And the memory came back whether I wanted it to or not.
I remembered the first time Abel had found out about the baby. The way his face had closed off completely, like a door being shut from the inside. The certainty he had carried that the child belonged to Ethan or Anthony. That it was a complication, a problem. Something that needed to be managed and contained before it could do damage to Victor and the pack he had devoted his entire life to protec
