Cain Pov
I couldn’t get Jem’s words out of my head, or the surprised and slightly excited feeling to go away. It didn’t mean…much of anything, in the end, having Jem’s approval but…it was something. It made me wonder why Jem specifically. He was the one who seemed to distrust me the most at first, and I couldn’t blame him. His daughter had been kidnapped a few years ago, and a stranger pops out of nowhere claiming her as his. As a father, he had every right to be hesitant about me, but then he got to know me. I wasn’t going to pretend most of our bonding had been over the way I fought, and if I ever see Zain again I’ll have to thank him. Even though Zain started off so unsure of himself growing up, he really came into his own and grew to be exceptionally useful to the pack. Without his ba
