Chapter 268

Aurora drove us back to campus. I didn’t know when she’d gotten the keys from Elliott, and I didn’t care. Bonnie quivered in my arms the entire time it took to get back, and I tried not to cry right along with her. No one said a word aloud, and I didn’t see the telltale flicker of eye movements that would’ve let me know that the other women in the SUV were talking on their IACs either, though I suppose it was possible. We were all trying to sort out what had just happened. I knew none of them had been affected as profoundly as I had been, but I had a feeling nothing like this had ever happened before.

I had a Vampire child in my arms, and at the moment, she was the only person in the world I cared about. I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do with her, though. It wasn’t as if I could just take her back to Cadence’s apartment with me. At sixteen, I hadn’t even considered being a mother. And she wasn’t exactly a