Rosie’s P.O.V
I didn’t think i’d do it until the words were already out of my mouth.
“You can’t leave, Joan,” i said, stepping from the shadows of the corridor.“Because you’re carrying Raven’s child. And that, is enough reason for you to be spared.”
The silence that followed was unlike anything i’d ever heard. Not the stillness of quiet, but a held breath every soul in the hall suddenly pausing, unsure of what they had just heard.
Joan’s eyes widened in shock. She looked at me as if i’d struck her across the face and kissed her in the same breath. Her hands instinctively moved to her abdomen, trembling slightly. Not because she believed it, she was smarter than that. But because she wanted to believe it. Desperation does that to people.
The guards looked at one another, the shift in t
