“I’m sorry if I let you down, but I haven’t lost my voice yet. It’s actually starting to come back,” Wiona said, her eyes cold and steady. “But that doesn’t mean I can’t see through your little secret, does it?”
“This so-called tonic is not some health remedy. It’s a strong abortion drug, the kind that wrecks a woman’s body and leaves scars that never really heal.”
She turned her gaze directly to Alona. “So that night, you made me drink it on purpose. And Jace, you helped her do it.”
“If I hadn’t forced Bianca to drink some too, just enough to give her a bad stomachache, would you have even bothered to knock the bowl out of her hand, Mom?”
The whole room froze. Bianca gasped. Daniel’s stare was full of rage, fixed on Jace and Alona.
“What did you two do?”
Jace lowered his head, guilt written all over his face. He knew he had no excuse. Alona just sat there, stiff and silent, refusing to admit anything. So, this was Wiona’s plan all along. She wanted to drag them all into her mess and force everything out into the open.
Jace finally knelt in front of Wiona, grabbing her knee, desperation in his voice. “Wiona, it’s not what you think. I didn’t know what was in that tonic. I just believed what Mom told me, that it was something to help you get stronger.”
“I was upset too when we lost the babies. But you’re still here. We can always have another child. You only drank it once. Maybe the damage isn’t that bad—”
Wiona’s laugh was sharp and bitter.
Have another child? Did he mean putting another embryo from him and Kellen inside her, making her go through another ten months of pregnancy, another round of pain just for Kellen’s sake?
She stared at Jace, her words dripping with scorn. “Jace, you and I will never have another child together.”
“You think I don’t feel pain? That I can’t hold a grudge? Am I just a doll to you, someone without any feelings at all? What makes you think there’s still a future for us?”

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