Lyra POV

Lyra chuckles silently to herself at that, rolling her eyes and checking her emails while her phone is on.

Emmett looks like a mirror image of Xavier, except his eyes are grey rather than brown.

They don't look like Lilith's green orbs - the baby doesn't look like her in the slightest, which Lyra supposes may be a relief for Xavier - he won't have to see Lilith's face in Emmett every day.

Emmett had been taken off his ventilators, and some of his feeding tubes had been removed that morning, the nurses and doctors having decided that he was growing as he should be.

Lyra had immediately...