![]() “One of mine would get a life for himself, a taste of something easy. ![]() Staring back with eyes that seem older than the rest of her face, the woman grabs Lauren by the wrist and makes a perverse offer: she will hand over one of her babies, in return for one of Lauren’s own twins. Lauren peers behind the cubicle curtain and sees the woman – clad in ragged clothes, her skin caked in grime. The staff denies this - but when Lauren is left alone, she hears the woman singing an eerie lullaby, her two babies cooing along:Īnd pierced the two pretty babes to the heart Lauren becomes convinced that there is a woman in the next cubicle with two babies of her own. But then, something strange happens in the maternity ward. Having given birth to a pair of twins, Lauren Tranter is filled with the mixture of delight and anxiety that is to be expected from a new mother. ![]()
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