"Ah! Please help me! It hurts so much!"

Amidst the agonizing cries for help, a crowd gathered, swelling in number.

Sherilyn Gomez stood frozen at the top of the staircase on the second floor, her gaze shifting from the tumbling figure of Caroline Bennett below to her hands, utterly bewildered.

"How did this happen?" she murmured.

Why did Caroline suddenly fall?

"What's going on here?" someone asked.

It was the Johnson family's annual feast, attended by numerous guests. The arriving crowd encircled Caroline, who lay at the bottom of the stairs.

"What happened? How did she fall?"

"She, she..." Despite her pain, Caroline looked up toward the top of the stairs. It suddenly dawned on everyone.

"Sherilyn pushed her!"

"Oh my God! Sherilyn, no matter how much you dislike Caroline, you can't go this far! She's pregnant, for heaven's sake!" "Exactly! That's too much."

accusations, Sherilyn went pale

to explain that she hadn't pushed Caroline. But no one was willing

sliced through the crowd, arriving a bit

Johnson, Sherilyn's husband of

Sherilyn brightened up, hoping

Gilbert looked up sharply, his gaze as piercing as a knife, landing squarely on her.

shaking her head.

by herself, huh?

left Sherilyn

embrace, her voice barely a whisper,

Sylvia Johnson, the family's matriarch, also

blood!" Suddenly,

pool of red began to spread, growing

clung to Gilbert, sobbing, "My

as he said it, Gilbert's face was

and with a fierce glare at Sherilyn, he warned,

words, Gilbert turned and

then was Caroline and her

her head, words

opened her mouth when Sylvia turned away and

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