ELEANOR
The darkness swam around me when I opened my eyes.
It was frightening, too, to open them and see Lady Lancaster standing alone with her son, Kieran, staring down at me with impersonal looks on their faces. I could have screamed out in horror of how much they made me think of evil-of demons standing by my bedside, with the flowing black clothes they wore and how white their faces seemed. Pale and vampire-like.
"You're awake," Kieran said, as though he needed to remind me.
I made a feeble attempt to nod, but my body felt like lead and it made me want to cry.
"Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?"
And there, the bombshell dropped. It made my heart start to race, and my skin went damp in that instant.
"The girl is weak, Kieran," Lady Lancaster said, as a smile spread a
