Chapter 219

ROWAN

The steady beep of the heart monitor filled the private hospital room where Elara lay in bed, hooked to a ventilator.

We were back in the West, but I wasn’t alone.

Elara’s mother sat next to her daughter, receiving an IV drip attached to a moveable pole next to her chair.

People weren't kidding when they said Elara looked just like her mother.

They looked like twins with the same long, dark,