#Chapter 78: Do You Love Me?

Cara’s POV I watch my daughter’s chest rise and fall in a slow and steady rhythm, sleep finally taking a firm and well-deserved hold on her. My head is spinning with complicated emotions. This isn’t the first time Mia has asked me to give her a Daddy. I know her little heart yearns for a father… yearns to be like all the other kids who have two parents. I so greatly want to be able to grant her wish. As a mother, I want to give my daughter everything her heart desires. Bedford had just asked me to marry him, but there's no way I could let someone like him be the father of my child. If there's a quickest and most fitting solution to this... it might just be Alaric. But Alaric, but this…This is such a complex, indescribably tenuous situation… How could I begin to explain that to my six-year-old daughter? I can’t, because she could never understand. So here I sit, lost in thought at her bedside, watching her sleep. There’s a knock at the door. Maybe it’s one of the nurs