Tessa
“I don’t understand,” I say, my eyes wide in anticipation.
Is she trying to say I have a chance of surviving childbirth? Even if the preventive pills I took didn't work, Renric made sure I took the after-morning pills. Could there have been another way for me to survive this?
She ignores me and begins walking away. It feels like there is more for her to say but she doesn't just want to reveal more.
“Wait…” I hurry after her, fastening my pace to meet up. “You have a very strange way of giving someone hope.”
She scoffs, not even bothering to slow down. “Who said I was giving you hope?”
I shake my head, confused, still hurrying after her.
She glances at me briefly. “You knocked me down in one round,” she adds. “It took Miriam the white wolf, ten before she even got lucky enough
