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168. Power Full – Part 2
~ JESSE ~
Her expression got very serious. “I don’t believe so. I believe… I believe he has seen the error in his father’s ways—at least, some of them,” she said, though I didn’t like the way she wasn’t meeting my eyes.
“Maya—”
“Jesse, this is… you’ve achieved something that none of the females in Cazz’s Royal line have done. You’ve captured your mate’s heart. And gathered his power. This is… stunning.”
I was too busy thinking back through all my conversations with Cazz, all those memories he’d shown me, trying desperately to remember if he’d ever actually said he wouldn’t make our kids do the same thing.
…Cazz stepped right up, standing over me, staring righ
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