Vengeance

"What do you mean, Nadia?" Ave asked as she leaned down to hear her words clearly.

"She is going to die regardless. It's either we let them both die, or we cut her open and remove the infant before it dies in there," Nina said with an emotionless voice, like she was talking about the weather rather than cutting someone open.

Ave felt her stomach again churn as bile rose to her throat at the cruelty of such an act. This was totally wrong. If only it were in the modern world, there would be no need for what they thought was the only way. A C-section would have been performed, and the mother and child would have been saved.