Chapter 143

• "Because they couldn’t make it back to the city in time," I said, my voice low, almost lost in the silence between us, "they rushed her to the only hospital in Spring Wind Town. It was small barely equipped, barely staffed. That same night, another pregnant woman was brought in..."
• I paused, watching the way Damien’s gaze never wavered. He was listening with the kind of stillness that made me nervous and comforted at the same time.
• “What happened then?” he asked gently, even though something in his eyes told me he already knew. Or at least guessed.