The Forbidden Birth, Rotting in the Dark

I was nine months pregnant and on the verge of labor, but my husband had me locked away.

His favorite mistress, Josie, had nearly lost her pregnancy after taking labor-inducing drugs just to ensure her son would be the firstborn.

To keep her calm, he forced me to drink ten bowls of a Labor-Lock tincture to delay my delivery.

I knelt on the floor, enduring the agonizing screams of my body, begging him to let my baby come into the world.

Instead, Preston personally forced the medicine down m