The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 224

I felt a pang shoot through me, but I couldn’t respond before another contraction took hold of me. With another yell, I pitched forward. This time, both Lilith and Sophia caught me by one arm each.

“Take her to your home,” Lilith commanded Sophia with a fire in her eyes that would have stolen my breath away had I any left to steal. “If you try anything funny, I’ll slit your throat.”

Sophia gulped but nodded. I wanted to protest, but the pain was too great, so I let them carefully lead me out of the forest and out to the road, where Sophia’s car was parked.

“An ambulance or going to the hospital would just alert Alexander to the birth,” Sophia explained as she helped me into the backseat of the car and began to peel away from the side of the road. “There’s no telling what he’ll do then. You’ll have to give birth secretly at my house, then figure it out from there. My family will help you stay safe as long as you need.”

I still wasn’t sure if she was right about Alexander, but by now, the labor was becoming too intense to think straight. The drive to Sophia’s home was a blur, and before I knew it, I was being rushed into one of the guest rooms and laid down on the large bed with several blankets and a bucket of warm water.

What happened next was indescribable. The pain was so intense that I couldn’t speak, couldn’t think,

could only scream and grip the blankets and pray that it would be over soon.

was over quickly.

each one longer and more intense than the last, as figures who I didn’t even recognize

came the final

and thick spurted out between my legs, and I looked up to see Lilith’s face go

trembling.

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felt like it was ripping in half, but then the

Then… silence.

of a newborn. No tiny bundle being lifted into my arms. Just silence that was only,

voice sounded faraway even to my own ears

reaching over with a shaking hand to push the sweat–soaked hair out of my forehead. “Don’t worry, Ella. Your little boy will be

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