'While he wanted more reasons to keep Eva around, watching these two brothers hem and haw, pushing the responsibility back and forth as if Eva was obligated to wait for them, was utterly infuriating. Did they really think their female couldn't find another male?'
Caden Albright's lips curled slightly in a faint, mocking smile, but his amber eyes held an innate coldness.
At his words, both Drake and Julian fell silent.
Evangeline, however, was perfectly composed and felt no awkwardness at all. She said, "I have to go back. The cub will be born soon, and Danton, as the father, can't be absent. There are plenty of people at home to take care of me. We'll get through the Cold Season just fine."
At her frank rejection, Julian's eyelashes trembled, his eyes filled with dejection, and his lips twisted into a self-mocking smile.
