broken glass and scattered papers. A tremor took

Each pulse was a hot blade twisting in my gut

. A small, glossy piece of paper slid o

hentic pregna

en he reached for the scan, was so rigi

lated, a black flood of raw p

m and saw the image on th

rom her throat. She doubled over, clutching h

rs welling in her eyes. "M

pped out of

ic with a mask of

at me bleedin

y paper was ripped into fragments. He opened his

a terrifying rage. "You faked a pregnancy. Your dea

pooling around my legs as he

he armored SUV, but stopped at

sson in obedience," he threate

at the b

Lorenzo ordered. "Lock them from the

natched my phone from the ground an

out and hit the

ers ground down with a

ocks clicke

f of light was followed by a silence so profound I could he

eeding p

me from the floor, a chill that

n began

I was

rge, jagged shard of glass f

ly, the edge bitin

arp edge across

rough the fog in my brain, a

oss the floor, leaving a thi

r-the boutique's backup audio recorder, dislodged from the counter. In

rd the landline be

led sounds of the

frantic voice shouting

d her medical files in the system! She has Rh-negative

renzo's fleeing SUV

d against t

inst the pavement, sprintin

a sound that was not human-a raw, guttural roar

nst the metal, the blows maki