CELESTINE'S POV:I hear the gunshots first.They are distant, muffled by the concrete walls and the earth packed tight around this underground prison, but they are unmistakable. The sharp crack of a firearm and the sound that makes your body tense before your brain even has time to process what it means. One shot. Then another. Then shouting, voices raised in anger and fear and something that sounds like triumph.My heart leaps into my throat.Lysander is here. He came for me. He found me.I am sitting on the cot in the corner of the concrete room, my back against the cold wall, my hand pressed against my belly. The baby is moving, kicking, fluttering, as if they can feel my excitement, my fear, my desperate, soaring hope. I have been in this bunker for days, surviving, holding on, waiting for this moment.And now it is here.Kier hears the noise too. He is standing by the door, his back to me, his body tense. He has been here for hours, sitting in that chair across from me, watching
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