Chapter 24
ISABELLA'S POV I should leave. Maybe go back to my room and my carefully constructed walls. But standing here in Viktor's bedroom at two in the morning, and watching him struggle with demons I understood too well, I feel a crack in my armor. "I have nightmares too," I admitted quietly. "About that jump I did between the buildings. About falling and or losing the baby because I was too reckless trying to escape." "Bella..." "Sometimes I wake up and I have to check, to make sure there's no blood, that the baby's still there." Tears burns my eyes. "I'm terrified all the time, Viktor. Terrified I'm going to do something wrong. That I'm going to fail this baby before they're even born." "You won't." His voice was certain. "You're going to be an amazing mother." "How do you know?" "Beca
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