Chapter 206Her head jerked up, her eyes wide and pleading. “Elena—please—no—no—my baby—please—”“Marianne.” I took her face in my hands, forcing our eyes to lock. “Listen to me. I am not letting anything happen to you or your baby. Do you hear me? I’m going to get them out. But you need to trust me completely.”She sobbed, nodding desperately, gripping my shirt like a drowning woman clinging to driftwood.Inside, I was terrified. I had never delivered a breech baby alone. Not without tools. Not without sterilization. Not in a hellhole where death hovered in every corner.But fear had no place here. Not now.I pushed it down, buried it, smothered it.I needed to be steel.“Everyone,” I said, my voice suddenly steady, louder than I intended, “give us space. No crying. No screaming. She needs calm around her.”The women backed off immediately, clutching each other’s hands, whispering frantic prayers through trembling lips.I repositioned myself carefully between Marianne’s legs, inhalin
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