PACK HEALER POV
I pressed my hands against Lily's belly just as the baby's heartbeat stopped totally.
"No, no, no," I whispered, fear flooding through me. In forty years of having wolf pups, I'd never felt anything like this. The child inside Lily wasn't dying - it was transforming into something that didn't need a heartbeat to live.
Around us, the floating battlefield of chaos energy pulsed with strange colors. Shadow-Lily's attack had stopped in mid-air, as if the baby's power was holding back time itself. Caleb's golden form blazed brighter, but even he looked frightened.
"Dr. Sarah, what's happening?" Lily gasped between contractions that were coming too fast, too strong.
