Trinity - Defying Destiny by Kylie Price

her records and told me there had been a child. I knew the baby was mine. Julie was not that sort of woman. I knew she loved me and only me, and I her. We went on the hunt to save the baby. Vex got a call from Dustin, who had read that a baby girl had been dumped at the Caboolture Hospital only a few days old. We thought it was strange to go from one to the other and then back to Redcliff. Vex said she must have known, she knew someone was coming for her, the only problem is, Lachlan destroyed her records at Redcliff about the child so there would be no trace, so they never found out who you belonged to because there were no baby births missing in the whole of Queensland. It had the authorities stumped.”
    “So how did you know it was me?” I pressed eager to hear more.
    “I went to the Caboolture Hospital. You were in the special care unit. Vex distracted the women while I snuck through. I took one look at you and I knew. Your hair was so black, your eyes so bright and blue. There, at the end of your crib hung the necklace your mother had always wore. Next to that was your name tag. Trinity. I waited outside for one of the nurses and I asked her why they had called you Trinity. She had looked at me puzzled, and then told me, ‘A child that is forgotten should be remembered for eternity. Trinity is eternal so it seemed to fit.’ It made me smile for the first time in what seemed like forever.”
    “It still does not explain why you just left me,” I said. My anger had subsided a little as my heart broke for Garth and my mother. I never knew her, but he did and he clearly loved her. It was written all over his face.
    “I wanted more for you. I didn’t want you to have a life of running and hiding. I wanted you to be free. I wanted to watch my daughter grow old and live a happy life. I knew you had it rough where you lived, but it was better than running, hiding or even worse dying. You have been in danger since your birth; I wanted to shield you from that. I watched over you every day and every night. I held you in your bed when you were asleep, I soothed you when you were left to cry alone as a baby. I was there Trinity, just not when you would know.”
    I tried to think back, but nothing seemed to come to me.
    “I understand your resentment, but now you know. I didn’t just leave you and forget about you. I loved you from the moment I knew you existed and I will never forget the feel of your tiny hand wrapped around my finger when I snuck in and saw you in the hospital,” he was almost pleading.
    I sat back and looked past him at the wall.
    I wasn’t sure how I should feel. Should I feel pity for him, anger for still leaving me or should I try to understand what it was he had tried to do? Save me from this life. He failed miserably, but could I blame him for trying? My own mother left me at a hospital because she feared that my fate was going to be death. My father left me because he feared the same thing. He wanted me to have a normal life, but then why would he…
    “If you wanted me to have a normal life, why would you turn the guy that loved me into an Alpha wolf?” I asked looking him dead in the eyes.
    “Because Carra told me, ‘the more you try to stop it, the worse fate she will have. Just protect her, but let the fates do their job.’ That is when I knew it was you. You were the final descendant and you were going to change no matter how hard I tried to stop it,” he breathed a sigh and hung his head sightly like he was defeated.
    “But why Jason?”
    “There is nothing scarier than a wolf protecting his cub except a burning man that would do anything for a woman he loves, like agreeing to turn into a werewolf just to protect you,” he said.
    “How did you know?”
    “Because he had the same look in his eyes that I did every time I looked at your mother,” he told me.
    I smiled at the thought of Jason loving me that much.
    “Do you miss her?” I asked.
    “Every day.”
    I looked down at