She had carried that grief and confusion for so long that she had never imagined there would come a day when both of them would be returned to her. Yet here she was, sitting in Kade Nightshade's territory with her daughter resting against her and her son only a short distance away.
Her son.
Her daughter.
The thought made her chest ache with emotion.
She had left Silver Ridge after seeing Ethan, the man she had loved and believed had fathered her children with her, preparing to marry his own sister. At the time, Dakota had felt as though the life she had known had shattered beyond repair. She had believed she had lost the man she loved and the future she had imagined with him, and she had never expected that leaving Silver Ridge would eventually lead her here.
Yet somehow, everything seemed to have fallen into place beside Kade Nightshade.
This was her life now.
She already had two children.
Two children she had never known were his.
