Chapter 306

When the shove came, I wasn’t surprised. What did surprise me was how ridiculously strong Serenna was. Had she been working out? That stray, irrelevant thought flickered through my head as I dodged at the last moment. Off balance, her arm swung past me and struck Naomi instead. Naomi stumbled. Her upper body pitched forward and she would have gone tumbling down the stairs if I hadn’t caught her elbow in time. Shaken but quick to recover, she straightened with my help, her face drained of colour. ‘You all right?’ My pulse had kicked up a notch too. She was pregnant, after all. What would have been nothing more than a bruise for me could have been a disaster for her. ‘I…’ Her voice rasped dry in her throat. ‘Naomi!’ A man in a black tuxedo bounded up the stairs three at a time and was at her side in seconds. He held her shoulders, scanning her anxiously. ‘Are you all right?’ ‘I’m fine.’ She finally found her voice, breathing out a shaky sigh. ‘I thought I was going to fall. I was terrifi