#Chapter 280 – Things Happen Fast

I pant a little, feeling the next contraction coming on – shit, are they supposed to move this fast? – and I grope for Gio’s hands even as I keep my eyes trained on Janeen. “Fay, you have to pay attention –“ Gio commands, his face stern. I send him a quick glancing glare. “Shut up, Gio,” I growl – And to my shock, he does, clenching my hands in his but falling silent. I turn my eyes back to my sister as my mother’s black hood is removed, as her eyes dart around to take in everyone in the room – My husband and his boyfriend on either side of her, holding her fast. The father of my child, the man she thought she was negotiating with for the past half-hour, looking at her sternly without an ounce of pity in his eyes. Her daughter, panting and pale on the couch, clearly in labor with her first child, a stranger holding her hands. Until finally, my mother’s eyes move to the beautiful young woman standing in front of her, her purple hair spilling around her shoulders. I watch Janeen