Alessia: Hope was calm. That was the only thing keeping me grounded. She lay in my arms, her tiny fingers wrapped around mine as I rocked her gently, the soft creak of the chair filling the nursery. The sunlight filtered through the curtains, warm and golden, brushing over her delicate features like nothing in the world had changed. Like nothing had broken. But everything had. And I didn’t even know how I could explain it. I couldn’t even accept it myself, let alone try and understand what was going on. My jaw tightened slightly as I looked down at her. The thought of her in danger made something in me churn, and the fact that I knew that someone as close as Seraphina was to the pack did this told me that others could be in the same situation too. “I am going to keep you safe, baby

