** Niall’s Point of View ** I watch as Val draws my blood, blood that I hope will save my son. MY SON! I have a child! I am a father! I’m overwhelmed by it. That adorable little boy is mine. He has half of my DNA and half of Freya’s. I couldn’t have asked for a better mother for my son. I admit that for a split second, I had been furious I had been lied to. I had asked Freya on more than one occasion if the boy was mine, and she had been adamant he wasn’t. Thoughts of taking Neo and banishing both Freya and Joel from his life had flashed through my mind, but I have learned not to act on my first thoughts. I have to give myself a moment to think things through before I lash out. Just because it is within my power to do something, it doesn’t mean I should do it. It’s clear how much Neo

