THE STERLING SPARK: LEGACY OF THE BEAST
It felt like fire.
"Elena, wake up," I said, shaking her shoulder gently.
She opened her eyes, but she didn't see me. Her pupils were wide, and for a second, they flashed a bright, electric purple.
"It burns," she gasped. She gripped my hand, and her fingernails—now sharper and stronger than a human's—dug into my skin. "Alaric, make it stop!"
I knew what was happening. My blood was changing her. The baby was growing, and it was demanding more from her body than she could give. She was having a "Beast Fever." If her temperature stayed this high, her heart would stop.