Chapter 27: The Widow’s Heat
The gray sedan sped down the coastal highway like a bullet.
I drove with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching my stomach. The road was a ribbon of wet asphalt stretching into the fog. The ocean crashed against the cliffs below to my right. It was a violent sound that matched the chaos in my blood.
I had burned the past. The Blackwood Estate was nothing but smoke and ash behind me now. I had killed the Cleaner. I had left Kaelen’s mother to die as she wished.
But I could not outrun the curse in my veins.
The fertility potion Kaelen had forced on me was a living thing. It did not care that I was grieving. It did not care that my husband was gone and my son was stolen. It only knew that I was empty.
My womb contracted with a hunger that bent me doub
