I watch as Tana leaps off the patio banister and shifts, flying away.
"Dammit!"
"Would you really take me from her?" I hear a soft voice behind me. I whip around, and in two steps, I'm in front of my daughter, kneeling down so I'm at her eye level.
"Baby girl, I would never take you from your mother. But you both belong with me. You are my daughter, she is my mate, and we should be together."
"She's made a life here, Cedric," Ishir says to me.
I grit my teeth and pick Kenna up, turning to him. "She’s. My. Mate.”
He shrugs. “What if it was you? Would you up and leave everything for her?”
He looks at me. He knows I can’t. “I have a pack to run.”
“And she has a company to run. Why is your life more important than hers?”
“It’s not, it’s just …” I run a hand through my hair.
“You lef
