It felt like I’d been punched in the gut and all the air had been pushed out of my body. No matter how much I tried to gulp in air, it was like my lungs were deflated and I couldn’t fill them up again. Tears streamed down my face and my heart pounded like it was running a race. Bain embraced me and tried to calm me down by stroking my hair and telling me it was going to be okay.

“How can it ever be okay?” I screamed at him as I pushed him away. “What happened? What did they do to her?”

“Calm down, Dahlia. The baby.”

I...