My chest tightened with defensiveness. “No. You ruined everything! You were the one who insisted on masking Isabella’s scent! If you hadn’t, everyone, especially Astor’s wolf, would have known that she was his daughter and mine, and the timeline wouldn’t have mattered as much!”
Kyle stopped pacing and gave me a look that suggested I was the most idiotic person he had ever met.
“Use your head, Alice! If I hadn’t masked her true scent, they would have known it wasn’t yours either! Your scent would be nowhere near that child’s true smell. Astor’s Alpha wolf would have recognized the scent of the biological mother, Faith, on Isabella, and he would have immediately run to bring his true mate home. That baby’s scent, her true scent, is practically wearing Faith’s name tag.”
I staggered back a
