A pause. Then she spoke again, a note of testing in her tone. "But what if she finds out the truth about her little brat's miscarriage?"
Dustin's voice went cold.
"Don't worry about that. It's been six months. I've already told every doctor to keep their mouths shut. No one would dare tell her."
A chill crawled from the soles of my feet to the crown of my skull.
I stared down at my stomach. Alice's words from before crashed back into me. She had said my miscarriage was no accident.
At the time, I'd dismissed it as another one of her provocations. But what if the truth was far worse?
### Chapter 7
"I still can't believe she was in the dark this whole time," Alice laughed. "You told her the miscarriage happened because she went out in the middle of the night, and she actually bought it."
"That's what she owed you as a mistress," Dustin scoffed. "She'll swallow whatever lie I feed her."
My body could barely hold itself upright, but I forced myself to keep listening.