CHAPTER 30
ELENA
Eight months later…
The baby refused to come. Elena paced up and down the hallway of the one-story house she had rented months ago. Her son, who was overdue, appeared to be just as stubborn as his dad. If her water didn’t break in the next forty-eight hours, she was getting prepped for a C-section.
Part of her dreaded being all alone in the hospital, but mostly she couldn’t wait to welcome her baby into the world. She just hoped his birth would be less chaotic than her flight from his father, who had wanted to steal him.
It had been months since she’d run from Viking to Katya. There hadn’t been any time to think everything through. All she had wanted was to get away from him. She’d been a bumbling mess of tears when she’d told Katya what had happened. Then Kristoff ha
