CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
Elena’s hand froze against her stomach as the drone’s message burned behind her eyes. The pull she had felt wasn’t Victoria’s final trick. It was something smaller, something new…a tiny heartbeat already answering its grandmother’s call from inside her own body.
The sisters turned to her, sensing the shift in the air.
Mara’s voice was sharp. “Elena? What is it?”
Elena looked up, her face pale under the sunrise. “I’m pregnant. The child… it’s already connected to her. The pull isn’t from Victoria. It’s from the baby. It wants to go to its grandmother.”
The words landed like another explosion. Jax stepped back, stunned. The real Lila’s face was drained of color. Dawn — the guardian…stared at Elena’s stomach as if it held the end of everything.
Victoria’s voice retur
