Chapter 115

CLAUDIA. Anytime now, I tell myself. Anytime now, and I’m going to black out. Kiernan is going to do whatever he wants to me, and it would be just as he promised. I won’t be able to feel a thing. When he’s done, I wouldn’t even know what he did. I would just know that the life growing inside me would be gone. And that he took it away from me. Anger flashes in my chest, dropping like a bomb in an enclosed space and stealing away all the oxygen. I look at Kiernan, still too weak to move, watching him tearing off my pants and pushing my shirt up. His movements are urgent, aggressive, but his face tells a different story. There are tears running down his cheeks, flowing down to his chin. I can feel some of them landing on my bare belly as he tries to get me fully exposed. The potion is just starting to kick in but for some reason, it’s stalled. He doesn’t seem to be too eager to get it to work either. I can feel the hesitation in his touch. He doesn’t want to do this. I take deep bre