Lahat ng Kabanata ng He Slept With My Sister, When I Was Giving Birth: Kabanata 451 - Kabanata 460

AvaBy the time my face was done leaking and the last ugly sob shuddered through me, the garden had gone blue with late morning and my voice was wrecked. Falco’s hand was still on my shoulder, solid and steady, thumb absently drawing little circles against my hoodie like he might keep me from unrave

EvelynHilda made it halfway down the hall before she stopped cold and turned. “Why is there a full platoon guarding your property, Evelyn?”Her voice wasn’t angry, just flat. She could have asked whether I was planning to throw her in the river and she would have sounded exactly the same. I’d been

So when Hilda left, I made sure to keep it that way,. I told myself it was for Ava’s good, but in this moment I realized how selfish it had been. I’d tried to erase the past instead of letting her grow around it.I sighed, and my ribs ached.Hilda stopped a few feet from the bed. She stared at Ava,

“I know.”He turned to face me, all the way this time. “You didn’t have to do this. I’d have been fine.”In my head, I punched him in the jaw. I could see his head snap sideways, the look of surprise, the slow-motion flop to the floor. In real life, he was still sitting there, watching me like I was

MayaI could hear Sofia’s breathing—slow, careful, measured like she was trying not to wake a sleeping animal.I waited a full minute before speaking, just to make sure the words came out right.“I told her to run,” I said.Sofia jerked up, instantly awake, the chair scraping on the floor. “What?”I