Chapter 207
Dane
I was not made for this.
“Stop crying, you little demon!” I barked, jostling the bundle in my arms in what was supposed to be a soothing sway but probably looked more like a man trying not to drop a watermelon. Dimitri shrieked louder, his tiny face scrunching up into a furious ball of rage that mirrored my own soul.
“I fed you, I changed you, I sang—SANG, gods help me!—what the hell do you want from me now?!”
The nursery door creaked open, and Helen stormed in like a thundercloud ready to strike.
“Your Highness!” she snapped, her hands on her hips. “Lower your voice! You’re scaring him!”
I turned to her, wide-eyed and livid. “I’m scaring him?! He's scaring me! Look at him! He's not even blinking! I think he's trying to hex me!”
Helen stormed over, took one look at
