“She will try to make him well,” Cettina whispered, choking on her next words. “But the baby came after Melina’s last breath. The baby was born to a corpse. That means he is cursed.” She only breathed the last words but every woman in the room heard her and they nodded their heads in agreement. There was no way this baby would live. And if for some reason he did, they all believed he was destined to become a monster.
