Serene's Pov I was quiet the entire ride home, and when I got home, I went straight to my room. Ianthe was pregnant — I hadn't been expecting that. Never even thought she could get pregnant, but here we were, facing a new nightmare growing in her womb. My chest tightened as my thoughts drifted to Daphne. Sweet, innocent Daphne, who had suffered so much in silence. The horrors she had endured in Ianthe’s hands were almost too monstrous to think of. I remembered the brokenness in her eyes, the way her body trembled. Her sister had been crippled and she herself had been broken emotionally and mentally. Ianthe had torn her apart, piece by piece. She’d been violated, her innocence stolen in the most brutal way imaginable. And now the woman responsible for it all was carrying a child, a

