Ace POV

Emily thrashed in my arms but went still the moment she saw her dad drop to the ground. A strangled whimper leaves her little lips, which were blue from the cold bite of the wind.

"Daddy?" She whispers, and my heart twists painfully for her when I see Reika dart off into the forest after her kids. That must have been hard to witness. No matter how much I hated that vile man, he was still the girl's father.

"Shh, shh, it's okay," I tell her, hoisting her higher and propping her on my hip when I see Tyson smashed and knocked out by a flying tree branch....