Poison.
The thought stuck in my head as I sat in the back of the car.
“I think someone wanted to get rid of the baby.” Gabriel had said, and my heart leaped into my throat.
I placed a protective hand over my stomach.“Who would want to do that?”
“I don’t know. We kept the news of your child within our circle.”
“I don’t tell anyone else besides Sylvie.” I responded to his questioning gaze.
He sighed, and nodded. “Let’s be grateful they didn’t succeed. But you have to understand, Ava, for all intents and purposes, this child is dead. No one can know that it survived. You understand me? No one.”
The gravity of the situation dawned on me little by little. Someone really wanted to kill my child. Or maybe they wanted to kill me. Or both of us.
“I suppose it’s a good thing you chose to liv
