Unholy Birth by Andrew Neiderman

Author:Andrew Neiderman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2007-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

12.

WILLY AND EVE WERE THERE so quickly I thought they must have broken a speed record on their way home. I had retreated to our bedroom and closed the door. I was actually shivering and had a blanket wrapped around me. They both stood in the doorway gaping in at me. I was sure I was a sight, my hair wild, my face flushed.

“What happened?” Willy asked. I had babbled it so quickly and incoherently when I called her that she didn’t fully grasp what I was saying. She just said she would be right home.

As calmly as I could, I described the phone call and the warning.

“You didn’t recognize the voice?” she asked.

“No. Who do we know who would do such a thing anyway? One of your many jealous admirers, maybe?” I asked her, my voice dripping with sarcasm.

She smirked and glanced at Eve.

“Don’t be a cunt, Kate,” she said.

“Well, who would do it?” I screamed back.

“My sister-in-law had something similar happen to her,” Eve told me in a little more than a whisper.

“What? Why do you mean something similar?”

“They really should warn you about it before they sign you up,” she added. She looked at Willy. “All these insemination companies are aware of them.”

“Of whom?” I demanded. I could feel the strain in my neck. “What the hell are you talking about?”

“Take it easy,” Willy said, moving closer to me. “I’m sure you’re making much more of this than needs to be and you’re going to get yourself into a terrible state.”

“I already am in a terrible state,” I said. “It wasn’t just what he said. It was the way he said it. That voice…like a voice from a nightmare.”

“Kate…”

“No, Willy, you didn’t hear it. I did.”

“Okay, okay, I believe you.”

“So aware of whom?” I asked Eve, trying to sound a little less frantic.

“There’s some right-wing religious group who believes this whole insemination process, using sperm like this, is unholy. They’re a branch of the same people who fight abortion, stem cell research, et cetera, fanatics who have gotten a taste of power and have become bolder and bolder. They threaten everyone, doctors included.”

I thought for a moment, wondering how she knew all this, and then I widened my eyes with suspicion.

“Could they have had anything to do with what happened to your sister because she went through a similar insemination process? Could they have anything to do with her dying in childbirth?”

“Kate.”

“Let her speak,” I snapped back. Willy actually took a step in retreat.

“I told you about that, Kate,” Eve said.

“You didn’t tell me why she died, just that she died in childbirth. I should have asked for some details, but I didn’t want to hear anything that would change my mind,” I admitted. “So? What happened to her, exactly?”

“She died of an aneurysm bursting as a result of her efforts with the delivery. It happens rarely, but it happens,” Eve said softly, looking to Willy as she spoke. I had the sense that they had spoken of this before and Willy knew all the grisly details.

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