HELENA POV
*Stay with me - Sam Smith*
HELENA POV
One second, everything was perfect.
Perfect in a solid, heavy, real way, the kind of happiness that sits in your chest and makes breathing feel easier instead of harder.
Silas was smiling. Happiness radiating from each pore, being the best dad for our kids and mate for me I could ever ask for.
His shoulders were relaxed, his posture loose, his eyes bright in a way I hadn’t seen in days, maybe ever.
He looked… young, and freakishly hot, almost as much as when I caught him shirtless baking cinnamon rolls in my kitchen back in Seattle.
I was watching him from the other side of the room, half-listening to Sebastian talk about something involving dragons and soup and a very serious rule violation Stephan had committed, when it hit me how
