Gentle breaths caressed my cheek as Razael curled up beside me and clung to my chest as he lay sprawled out, I smiled at the sleeping child as I turned to get a better look at him. His dark eyelashes fluttered as his eyes danced across his eyelids with pleasant dreams gracing his young mind. He appeared frail and vulnerable as he rested, relaxed. I sighed, content as I shifted my weight and turned to face him, he smelled sweet with my scent rubbed off on the pup as I claimed him as my own and yet a feeling gnawed at me as a sense of familiarity continued to grow.
If only it were me who bore him, I thought wearily.
The thought of making him my child swelled through me, I wanted to reach into the child and alter his genetics, to change his parentage and change his fate so that I was his mo
