Kael's POV
"Because you don't see him for who he is. You see your lost child in him and try to mend him that way," I explained to her. "Do you respect his choices, or do you impose yours on him? When we went shopping today, did you consider what he liked, or were you thinking of what you would have liked your own son to wear and play with? Weren't you just trying to fulfil the wishes you couldn't fulfil with your own child?"
Utterly confused and guilty, maybe, she stared at me with tears still rolling down her eyes. Her lips trembled to say something in her defence, but words failed her.
"Eira, if you truly want to be Raven's mother, you need to be real. If you don't understand how, you can talk with me or any of us. We are family now—our mate—and now we have a son. For his sake, you have to, but more for your own sake."
There was silence for a while as she continued to shed more tears and finally asked, "Does he not like me as his mother?"
