Chapter 6
The mattress gave as Heaven pushed herself up. She searched the bedroom for Dylan, even Layne, but neither were anywhere in sight. The cabin was silent of every sound but the storm. Rain beat against the roof as if a hundred tap dancers were atop it, clicking their metal toes and heels.
As loud as the drops were, they did little to distract her from her hardening abdomen. Neither did the roll of thunder, the way it spread through the valley, echoing off the hills surrounding them.
The weather was the least of her concerns. Pain throbbed in every fiber of her being. It hurt to breathe, to move, to sit atop the mattress. She gritted her teeth to prevent herself from screaming, but it didn’t take away the pain tearing her apart.
She fell back against the bed, her head hitting th
