Chapter Thirty-Five
Fulfilled
Getting to his feet, Provoker carried the still infant over to where Star stood in frozen horror, and gently laid the girl in her mother"s arms. She was so thin, so frail, and tinier than Star remembered. The baby"s head lolled against her breast, the eyes closed as if in sleep. Frantically, Star raised her up and tried to breathe life back into the infant as she begged her daughter to live.
"Come on, Callie. Be a good girl. Live for me. Live! Callie!"
Behind her, Hunter clutched her shoulders as he peered down at the baby. Like his wife, tears coursed down his cheeks as he whispered a prayer.
"Please...by all the gods... Wake up, Callie."
He moved around to take over moving light puffs of air into the infant"s lungs, all the while rubbing the cold littl
