DYLAN'S POV
The days after Laila’s death were hell for me. I knew she was gone and never coming back and yet the palace didn’t seem to have gotten the same memo. Every inch of the palace had her scent. Even the baby that she had left with me had her scent and I had resorted to avoiding holding the baby altogether.
I had gone back to the palace after the elders started calling me nonstop and Theo said that he didn’t know what to tell them anymore. It seemed they had a lot of questions about the baby and the events that took place after the death of the queen. I still hadn’t met up with them and I wasn’t planning to do that anytime soon. I didn’t want to have to explain anything to them. I was already struggling with settling into the role of being a single father despite the fa t that I h
