Chapter 4

Arabella Martin awoke to a sharp pain on her face. Instinctively, she reached up and felt the gauze covering her skin.

A nurse nearby noticed her movements and quickly intervened, "Please don't move. Your face has been burned."

"Burned?" Arabella's voice wavered as she spoke.

The nurse looked at her with sympathy. "Yes, when the car caught fire, you were trapped inside. If a passerby hadn’t helped, you might not have survived."

Arabella lowered her gaze. The question she wanted to ask hung in the air, but the nurse preemptively answered, "The baby didn’t make it either. But you’re young;…