Chapter 27: The Protector
Chapter 27: The Protector
The house was completely still. David stood in the doorway of the nursery, watching.
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Chloe sat in the rocking chair, carefully cradling the sleeping infant. She stroked his impossibly soft cheek with a gentle finger. Her face was intensely serious, devoid of the fragile fear that had defined her for months.
"I won't let the monsters get you," she whispered. Her voice wasn't a child's timid promise; it carried a quiet, unbreakable steel. The victim who had cowered in the yellow raincoat was gone forever. In her place sat a fiercely protective older sister, ready to burn the world down to keep her brother safe.
