AURELIA POV

My breath came in shallow gasps, each one laced with the sting of panic. The moment the door slammed shut behind them, I lay still, too afraid to move, my body curled in on itself as if making myself smaller would somehow make me invisible.

I instinctively reached for my stomach, my fear multiplying by tenfold. Little did my captors know that they threatened two lives and not one.

Six hours.

That’s all the time I had before they killed me and my baby.

A sob built in my ...