Rebirth of the Alpha's Slave Mate (Samantha and Kade) novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99

layers of anger and hatred.

Maybe Kade loved our child just as much as I did.

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Chapter 99

Elena’s POV

Kade called me to his study that night after dinner. I’d spent the entire afternoon pacing my room, nervously awaiting the call. But when I hurried downstairs, for the first time, I didn’t feel fear-only the tingling nerves of excitement.

“Come in,” Kade’s muffled voice called out when I knocked. I took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

I set foot in the room and froze in my tracks.

There she was. Ivy. My little girl with the name of poison… Bundled in Kade’s arms, stirring and wide-eyed.

Kade glanced up at me from the swaddled infant in his arms, and for a moment, the softness in his expression made my throat constrict. But he quickly smoothed it over with his usual cool indifference and stood.

I slowly walked across the room, heart pounding, and held my arms out. “May I?”

Kade hesitated, clutching Ivy a little tighter to his chest like he feared I might snatch her away.

“It’s only to get a better look at her,” I said softly.

He paused for another moment, but then nodded and closed the distance between us. The second he rested Ivy in my arms, I felt my knees go weak, my pulse spiking with excitement, fear, joy, heartache-all of those mingling emotions of a first-time mother and more.

I couldn’t put words to how amazing it felt to hold my child in my arms for the first time. In that instant, as I looked down into those big blue eyes staring up at me-so much like my own eyes-all I knew was that this was right.

Ivy was mine. Truly mine. I knew it as sure as I knew the sky was blue and the grass was green. I knew it better than I knew myself.

I could feel the bond between us, weak but there, like a half-frayed, tentative thread had been strung from my ribs to hers. I wanted to clutch her close and never let go.

But Kade was staring at me, so I had to compose myself. I focused instead on the energy that coursed through my veins, fixating on the inner fibers and cells of Ivy’s body. I searched her lungs, her heart, her brain-but the warmth that I felt wasn’t localized like it had been with the other people I’d healed.

With the others, that warmth was still. Stagnant. Like a warm pool of fetid water.

This was flowing through Ivy, pooling in every corner of her tiny body, ebbing and moving like the pull of a warm tide-never still, never stagnant, never solid enough to perfectly identify.

I must have looked confused, because Kade stepped forward. “What’s wrong?”

“Her illness is fully systemic in nature,” Ava cut in. “It permeates everything. This may be more than underdevelopment.”

My heart sank. “What do you

mean?”

Ava paused, then said quietly, “Your body was incredibly weak when you were pregnant with her. She may have inherited your weakness; there is a chance that she cannot be cured at all.”

Oh, Goddess. I felt sick. “Will she die?”

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