Elena POV Twins and I sat there on the ER bed trying to process that word because it felt like history repeating itself, like I was following in Sophia's footsteps in the worst possible way. She'd been pregnant with twins when she died and now I was pregnant with twins while my husband lay in a coma, and the parallel was too terrible to think about. "Like Sophia," I whispered. Dr. Chen looked up from her tablet. "I'm sorry?" "Adrian's first wife, she was pregnant with twins when she died." I wrapped my arms around myself. "This feels like some kind of curse." "It's not a curse, Mrs. Blackwell, it's biology and genetics and timing." Dr. Chen sat down again. "Twins run in families sometimes or it can just happen randomly, but it's not a curse." "It feels like one." "I understand why

