At Any Cost

(Kaelen’s POV)

I didn’t sleep that night.

The fight with Neva kept replaying over and over, until the words "bad parent" I’d thrown at her filled my heart with guilt.

The image of her sitting on the bed, weak with wet eyes and trembling lips wouldn’t leave me. They haunted me.

Torin was restless too. Every time I closed my eyes, he paced in my head like a predator "If you don’t protect the kids,