Chapter 0522

For a moment, I felt detached from my own body. The shock of what my father had told me sent my body spiraling, leaving me feeling drained and empty.

"So the visions," I finally managed, swallowing, "did she..."

"No," my father said quietly. "She didn't see a shadow entity, or whatever you called it. But she had her own demons, Nina. Perhaps the 'entity' you see now is a machination of your own pain, just as her visions were machinations of hers."

"What sort of pain did she have?" I asked quietly.

My father's face blanched slightly, and he sighed, staring down at his desk.

"Your mother suffered a great deal during her upbringing," he said softly. "Her parents died due to disease, and she bounced from home to home. There were things that happened to her as a young woman that I won't dare to repeat. Forgive me, but I can't."

my father's feelings. "Of course, I murmured,

however you'd like to call it, could be harmful for your baby. I'd like you here, where you're

emotion swell inside of me. "So you think I'm doomed? That

"That's precisely what I'm worried about, Nina. Your mother was

you do for her then?" I pushed, feeling

measures, sought help from

did it?" I interrupted, maybe a little more harshly than I

both healthy, unlike the first pregnancy. But even throughout her pregnancy with

should consider talking to someone who specializes in these kinds of things. A professional, maybe even outside the

that he was on the same page. "Yes, Dad, maybe it's time to think beyond

consider it, but with caution. Not everyone has the best intentions,

over the room. My father was right; plenty

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