Devin's POV The porcelain doll stared at me from the coffee table with its glass eyes and its tiny christening gown, and I made a decision that had been building in my chest for weeks, ever since the first threat arrived in a plain white envelope with no return address. "Burn it," I said. Eve looked up from the couch where she had been sitting in silence for the past twenty minutes. Her hand rested on the curve of her belly, a gesture so automatic now that I doubted she even noticed she was doing it. "What did you say?" "The doll, the locket, the rattle, all of it. I want them destroyed. Every heirloom they have defiled, every object they have twisted into a weapon against you and our sons, I am done letting them use your mother's memory against you as ammunition." She stood slowly, her palm pressed to the small of her back where the weight of the twins was beginning to strain her muscles in ways the doctor had warned us about. Her expression was unreadable, but I knew her well
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