isted, pushing through the p

st smiled, that c

ear, dear. She wants me to handle th

t want to die? Because I

pain crashed ove

roaching the bed. "Let' s just

ion was roug

nounced. "But perhaps a little to

red. I knew wh

and I felt the baby start to cro

pu

y. Trying to fo

The pain was beyond anything I' d eve

"You' ll kill him! Y

termination. "Just a little delay, dea

ng. My body arched, fight

was trying to murder him befor

all, so cold at the poisoned chri

d, hoping she was

it wasn' t Rosa. It w

oing on? Rosa said you were in labor

I sobbed. "She' s

d up, her composure

she said quickly. "Eleanor left strict instruct

retchen' s hard face to my tear-streaked one. He looked un

the birth!" I cried.

ards a medical tra

she said, her voice like ice. "A l

while she did her work, or le

Not

the syringe, I lunged, my teeth sink

scream this time, d

led from

e snarled, her mask of

orrified but w

en, alerted by G

h! What is

ng my bitten hand, tasting Gret

r, Gretchen' s bleeding hand, my ter

her phone, her

Gretchen spat, cradling her injured hand. "

g, her eyes fixed on me wit

ld understand. I p