Sesame King
Two years ago, I got pregnant for the first time.
At ten weeks, a silver lock-shaped charm appeared outside our front door.
There was no shipping label and no sender.
Ian Shaw laughed at me for worrying. He said a friend had probably sent us an early gift for the baby.
But that night, I developed stomach pains.
By the time I reached the hospital in the early hours, the baby no longer had a heartbeat.
A year ago, I got pregnant again.
I told no one, not even my mother.
In the eighth week, an identical silver charm appeared in the nursery we hadn’t used yet.
The doors and windows were locked, and the security cameras showed no one entering.
That time, I fell in the bathroom and lost the baby too.
Now I was pregnant again.
Before dawn in my seventh week, a nightmare woke me. My fingers touched something cold beneath my pillow.
A third silver lock charm lay there.
I held it in my shaking hands.
Who was trying to kill my baby?