The Baby Shift- Georgia by Becca Fanning

Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 8

Es let the tears flow as she drove home. Not that crying would help. There were times in her life that tears had been cathartic, the release she had needed to cleanse hurt from her heart and pull herself back together. That had never been the case with tears over Matt. The grief seemed just as profound and endless as her love for him.

She parked about a block from her house when the phone rang. She tried to hide the grief so that he wouldn’t hear it in her voice when she saw his number flash on her phone screen. She listened as he described the patients’ symptoms that were directly exposed to the poison, as he assured her that their cases were more severe than Sofia’s.

“Matt…do you know who’s doing this?”

“I am pretty sure, yes. There’s a religious group outside of town…”

“I know them.” And she did. They’d tried to recruit her when she’d moved here, and they’d heard the story of how a shifter had gotten her with child and left her, never telling her that her daughter would be a shifter too. Apparently it was a shifter hate group…made up entirely of shifters. Some things she would never understand.

She had never had a problem with shifters, and she was downright thankful to be in a community of them that would help her raise Sofia and guide her through figuring out that part of herself. It was only dumb luck that Dr. Jenkins had stumbled across her and showed her the way to a community where Sofia would get the help she needed.

“Well, the brother of one of the members was behind mass poisonings in Florida, and I traced the source of his poison back to here. I’m pretty sure that’s where the poison is being manufactured. Just sit tight, Es. I’m going to fix this.”

She believed he would fix it, but just in case…she wouldn’t be sitting tight. Not when there might be something she could do to help her daughter. She went in, told Stephanie that she had to be out a bit longer, and kissed her daughter before she headed out. She didn’t tell Stephanie what she was planning. Her friend would have protested, would have wanted her to stay safe.

But if these people had developed a poison, if people in town were getting sick from being in its proximity while they remained healthy enough to manufacture it…that meant they must also have a cure. And she was going to find it, even if she had to join the cult to do so. For Sofia, she would do anything.

She set out to join them on foot. This particular cult was fond of renouncing worldly possessions, and she wanted to appear sincere. It was a few miles out of town, but she covered the distance quickly enough.

Es was making her way through the last stretch of woods before their ‘community’—if a place with 10 foot high walls topped with barbed wire could be named something

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