Chapter 209

• Anna closed the flap before Bella could see out of it. Her heart rate sped up to a hundred and she could barely hear anything over it. The feeling in her stomach was justified, she knew something bad was coming. Now it was here and she didn’t know what to do.
• “What was it?” Bella asked from behind her. Her eyes were wide and innocent—Anna only felt her panic heighten. She had to protect Bella—nothing else mattered but Bella and her unborn baby.
• “I…” Anna gripped Bella’s arm and moved her to the back of the tent where it was the darkest. She quickly grabbed the blankets off the bed and put them around Bella in an attempt to hide her. “I need you to stay here and hide. No matter what you hear, do not come out. Do you understand me?” Anna whispered. “You can not make a single sound once I leave.”