Pieces of Sky by Kaki Warner

Author:Kaki Warner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

Fifteen

JESSICA FLOATED ON A ROILING BLACK SEA. SHE KNEW SHE was not alone. Shadowy figures moved around her, murmuring in soft worried tones while she drifted. She didn’t want to waken. She sensed that beyond the blackness something terrible waited, something she didn’t want to know.

Better to float in velvety blackness. Better not to know, not to feel.

Perhaps she was drugged. Perhaps she was dying. She didn’t know.

After a time, awareness intruded. With it came pain, rolling over her in waves that built with every heartbeat, until finally on the crest of an unending surge of crushing pain, she was thrown back into the light. With a gasp, she opened her eyes.

Elena and Consuelo hovered at her head. Dr. O’Grady stood between her bent knees. Another cramp caught her unawares, gripping her abdomen so tightly, it bowed her back. A cry tore through her throat.

Hands held her down, told her to breathe, to relax, not to push. And at last she understood.

It’s too soon, too soon, her mind cried as she rose off the sweat-soaked bed with an anguished scream.

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