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My child

Elara felt Damian tense beside her, his hand tightening around hers.

“The baby,” Nina said, her voice barely above a whisper. “The one my mother had killed... he’s alive.”

The words hung in the air, seeming to suck the breath from Elara’s lungs. Alive? How could that be possible? She had mourned that child, had borne the devastating grief of his loss for months.

“What are you saying?” Damian asked, his voice tinged with a desperate hope that Elara dared not give in to.

“I overheard her,” Nina explained, her gaze fixed on the ground. “Giving instructions to the assassin, Ghost... she wanted the baby dead, to sever the last tie between you and Elara. But I... I couldn’t let him do it. I begged him, pleaded with him, until he agreed to spare the child’s life.”

Elara felt the world tilt on its axis, her heart racing as the implications of Nina’s words sank in. Their child, the one they had been robbed of, was alive. Alive and out there, somewhere, all this time.

“Where is he?” she demande
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