Book 2 Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Valeria

Help me… someone… help me…

My insides feel like they’re tearing apart.

I stagger down the corridor, the walls stretching and shrinking as if they’re breathing with me. A table catches my hand when I slam into it, my knuckles whitening as I cling to it for balance. The weight of my swollen belly drags me forward, as if something inside is trying to claw its way out.

“Asha’ren.” The word drifts from the darkness, but there is nothing there.

A twisting pain rips through m