But Flora Bloom was pregnant herself, wasn't she? Chasing, running, jumping, going through hell and high water—none of it made her feel the slightest bit unwell.
Besides, Kyle Warren was a Fire Element, and the Water Element was its natural counter. As they were both level-one superpower users, their superpower-enhanced physical constitutions should be about the same. There was no way Kyle Warren could have hurt her.
That left only one possibility: this Lucia was faking it. Faking weakness, helplessness, and misery. Before they arrived, that pitiful, helpless, weak, and innocent act was a tool she used to make Kyle Warren her protector.
After they arrived, that same frail, pitiful act became a ploy to manipulate them into saving her.
