Deni
“What?” I ask feeling like my insides are shriveling up and melting away. I snatch my hand out of his grasp. “What are you saying?”
“You shouldn’t have sealed him inside you. This means you won’t be able to take him out now, not until he comes out of your body inside your baby…not until he is born,” he says looking earnest. He reaches for my arm again, but stops when I take a step away from him. He stares at me with hurt reflected in his eyes. He blinks it away. “You don’t have to believe me. But whoever did this he wanted to keep the creature inside you, not for protecting others but the creature. He tricked you.”
I turn to Haven, thinking about Cain.
No…Cain wouldn’t do that. He wouldn’t.
Haven comes close to me. He pulls to his side.
“I don’t believe you. You’re lying,” I s
