Chapter 298

• Third Person's POV
• Alaina pointed a trembling finger at his face, her voice exploding with rage. "Are you satisfied now? You forced your own mate to kill her child just to protect some stray's bastard!"
• Cassian looked like he'd been hollowed out. He slumped into a chair, his voice a jagged rasp. "Mom, Samantha was exiled for six years because of me. Grandpa forced her out. She was brutalized out there—that's how she ended up with that child. She only came back because she couldn't survive anymore. I was just trying to make it right..."