Fake Vows, Real Devils

Serena was the only sane one in her family. To keep from becoming a widow, she had picked her husband extra carefully. But on the day she went into labor, her husband had her strapped to the operating table — pregnant with his child — and forced the pregnancy to continue, all to keep his mistress happy. She pressed the sapphire on her thumb. Two hours later, her stateless family of lunatics kicked the lab door open.