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When Leila opens her eyes, the next morning, she hears the sound of a man’s slow heavy breath behind her in bed, his arms firmly wrapped around her, their body pressed tightly against each other and Leila slightly shifts her butt away from the hard thing pressing against her thigh, feeling embarrassed but she doesn’t wake Kelvin up.

She spins slowly in his arms and studies his face while he sleeps, he is handsome and looks almost like an angel in his sleep.

He is an angel even when he is awake.

Without him, she would not be alive and he has saved her life numerous times on different occasions, putting his life at risk, the hideous scars on his forearm are testament to that.

She knows Kelvin is in love with her, it came to her as a brutal shock when he told her that he has always been in love with her about five years ago, two months after they settled into the Bayview pack, thanks to Kelvin’s family business investments in the pack.

It was the day she went into premature labour, she could not push out her baby because she was too weak and when the doctors tried to cut her open to bring out her child via surgery, the child would heal the wound, causing it to close up almost immediately.

It was a dilemma and she was sure that she was going to die and so was Amara until Kelvin provided her with something she had been deprived of for years, something that always made her feel incomplete, he gave her the cure to her wolf and confessed his feelings for her in tears, begging her to leave.All content © N/.ôvel/Dr/ama.Org.

It was a very emotional moment for her and she did not know how to process it then. Amara is now four and neither of them have brought the conversation up again.

She knows why she hasn’t, she doesn’t want to string him along and use him for a rebound when she can only see him as a friend.

This cuddle is the most intimate that they have gotten in years and if it wasn’t that she was crying so much last night and Kelvin had to hold her and fell

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asleep before her, he would have gone to his room by now.

She notices how he is careful around her avoids physical touch as much as possible but she also catches him stealing longing glances at her when she is not looking.

She knows his love for her is strong and it is proven but he is not her mate, she doesn’t care for Tatum, that is not it but she doesn’t want to do to Kelvin what Tatum did to her, stop him from finding his mate or worse, she gives herself and her love to him and then he finds his mate and leaves her for the other

woman.

She cannot go through the same ordeal twice, it’s all just so complicated.

“Mama,” Amara’s voice comes and Leila peers down to see her standing by the door, clutching her teddy bear against her chest.

“Good morning sweetheart,” Leila rolls out of Kelvin’s arms and gestures for Amara to come to her.

“The old woman came to my dream again,” Amara says begrudgingly, as her mother lifts her on the bed.

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“What did she say time?” Leila asks with a small smile.

“Same thing, she calls me daughter of the-” Amara suddenly realises the third figure breathing heavily on the bed and her eyes light up in enthusiasm.

“Mama and Uncle Kev now sleep in the same bed? Does this mean uncle Kev is now papa Kev? All my friends at school say their mama and papa sleep in the same bed,” Amara says in frantic joy, tugging Leila’s hand, her lips quivering, demanding an answer and Leila can see the pure joy a positive answer would bring to her daughter.

She glances at Kelvin and then smiles back at Amara.

Amara loves Kelvin, Kelvin loves them both and she loves Kelvin, though as a friend but where is the harm in loving him as more.

He does not lack anything she desires in a man.

Can she give Kelvin and Amara their wish? Can Uncle Kev really become papa Kev?

She lifts Amara into her arms. “Why don’t we go make breakfast and let Papa Kev sleep?”

“Yay!” Amara cheers excitedly. “Now I can tell all my friends I have a papa that is not an uncle.”

Leila chuckles, carrying Amara in her arms as she leaves for the kitchen an she glances at Kelvin one last time.

A lifetime with him is definitely worth a shot.