Chapter 9: The Heat
The spoon snapped.
I stared at the jagged piece of metal in my hand. It was my only hope. My only way to dig through the mortar and escape the stone tomb Kaelen had thrown me in. Now it was broken. Just like me.
I dropped the metal. It clattered against the damp floor.
I curled into a ball on the thin mattress. I tried to weep but I was too dehydrated for tears. I was going to die here. Seraphina would come back when I was heavy with child. She would cut me open. She would take the only thing I had left.
And Kaelen would let her.
Suddenly a cramp ripped through my abdomen.
It wasn't the baby. It was lower. Deeper. It felt like a hook grabbing my uterus and twisting it.
I gasped clutching my stomach. A wave of heat rolled over me. It started in my core and spread
