Eve's POVAnother contraction seized my belly, sharper and longer than the ones before, and I cried out despite my desperate effort to stay silent. The pain was immense now, radiating through my abdomen and into my lower back, and I gripped the bed rails until my knuckles went bloodless and white. Margaret was still adjusting the monitors, her expression calm but intensely focused, and I wanted to scream at her to do something, to fix this, to make absolutely certain that my babies did not die because of the stress and the fear and the endless parade of people who had been trying to destroy my family since before they were even conceived.Dr. Rivera burst through the door with her white coat billowing behind her and her surgical mask already hanging around her neck. She took one look at the monitors, one look at my face, and began issuing orders in a voice that was calm and authoritative and utterly certain."We need to move her to the OR immediately. The babies are in significant dis
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