He Said I Could Never Give Anyone a Family — Six Months Later I Was Pregnant With Twins, and He Turned White When He Learned Who My Neighbor Really Was

But underneath it, something new and cold and clear came up to meet it.

I felt, for the first time in a very long time, dangerous.

Chapter 5 — General Reed

The next morning Arthur drove me three hours, mostly in a comfortable silence, to a place called the Hartwell Center for Reproductive Medicine.

I recognized the name before we reached the door.

Everyone did.