Chapter 234

**Paige’s POV ** I don’t remember when the pain stops, not really. I remember heat, pressure, noise. Then suddenly it all goes quiet. It’s not silence, exactly. Just a shift. Like the world exhales and rearranges itself around something new. Her, my daughter, with the brightest, purest of souls. She’s warm against my chest, impossibly small and yet somehow everything. Her weight grounds me in a way nothing ever has before. My hands shake as I cradle her, my fingers instinctively tracing the shape of her back, the curve of her head, the tiny bundle of movement that tells me she’s real. She’s really here. A rush of love crashes over me, fierce and aching and full. My throat tightens, and fresh tears roll down my cheeks, but I don’t wipe them away. I don’t want to miss a single second of this moment. It’s scary how much she looks like Remy and Parker. It’s almost as if I didn’t have any input in her looks at all. Jax was the same; he looked just like Ryder when he was born, and that broke