The pain hit out of nowhere.
Georgia gasped, her body curling in on itself as a sharp, unbearable pressure wrapped around her belly. For a second, she thought it was just another cramp, another one of those miserable pains she'd been getting for weeks now. But then it came again, stronger this time, ripping through her like claws dragging down her spine.
Her breath hitched.
No. No, not today.
She wasn't ready.
Her hands trembled as she clutched her belly, her heart hammering so hard it felt like it might burst. The baby, no, the babies, they weren't supposed to come yet. She still had time. Didn't she?
Anna was outside hanging clothes when Georgia's legs suddenly buckled beneath her. A strangled cry tore from her throat as she collapsed onto the wooden floor
