Chapter Twenty-Nine – The First Light
Anna’s P.O.V.
The pain had changed.
It was still there.
Still fierce enough to steal my breath and make every muscle in my body tremble.
But it wasn’t consuming me anymore.
Not with Carter beside me.
His hand never left mine.
Every time another contraction rolled through me, he squeezed my fingers and whispered my name as though it were a prayer.
“I’m here.”
Three simple words.
Yet they quieted a fear I hadn’t realized I’d been carrying since the day Navarro took him from me.
He was here.
He was alive.
He was holding me.
And somehow…
That made the impossible seem survivable.
Doña Isolde knelt beside us, one weathered hand resting gently against my stomach. Her silver brows knit together in concentration before she slowly lifted her gaz
