Chapter 210

*Elora*

“Don’t leave me,” I gasped.

My fingers clutched Kael’s wrist, slick with sweat and blood, as my body arched from another contraction that felt like it had split me down the center.

“I’m not going anywhere,” he said, voice low, fierce, shaking.

Another scream clawed its way from my throat as fire rippled under my skin, not metaphorical, not imagined—but real. Every contraction came with a p