Bastien’s Point of View If there is such a thing as a loud silence, it happened after Helena dropped that bomb. Dylan finally broke the stunned silence. “A baby? A real live baby? How can that be?” Her bottom lip quivered when she spoke. “I trust that you have heard of surrogacy before?” Helena asked Dylan and Rowan. “Yes, but we’re vampires. How...?” Rowan stammered. “Rowan, dear, you both still have the ingredients needed to make a baby, we just have to activate it, that’s all. Let me explain the process to you, hopefully that will help ease your shock and skepticism. Faye woman, like mortal women need medical intervention to help them have babies from time to time. We have been doing things like surrogacy and IVF for a very long time, a lifetime before we shared the idea in the