Chapter Fourteen
Sarina woke to the cries of her sons, startled by a dream that turned her stomach sour. When Brody woke next to her, she didn’t shush him back to sleep as she normally did. The hair on her neck stood on end and chills ran down her spine as she crept closer to her sons’ cribs. Through the light of the nearly full moon, she could see them sleeping soundly and sighed with relief. She turned to hug Brody and screamed.
The next instant a hand cracked her across the face so hard that her vision blurred. “Shut up, w***e!” came a malicious voice. “I took your children the first time and allowed them to live for your father’s sake. I won’t make the same mistake twice.” Sarina watched with tears rolling down her eyes as Lilith approached her babies as they cried. She shushed them,
