Suddenly Tessa understood. “My god. The thing inside her — Ember — had moved into the child? And that was well before Lut’s visit?”
Ellie and David both nodded at the same time.
“You told me the same thing, remember?” David asked her, with gentle accusation in his voice. “About yourself.”
A deep sense of shame washed away the relief she had expected to feel. “I... God. You must think I am a monster. But I thought... I didn’t have anyone to help me.” Tessa covered her face with her hands and cried.
“It is all right, dear,” Ellie said. “I don’t think any less of you. But I’m very glad that things worked out the way they did.”
Tessa wiped her eyes, then spoke very quietly. “This world you saw, the one where I went to the clinic, what was it like?”
David shook his head. “Doesn’t matter.
