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“Please, don't kill me. Don't kill our child,” the queen pleaded then.

When Veronica looked up at her, Daphne really did give up then. She saw tears in Veronica's eyes. Through the tears, she saw her own death in the mistress's dark-blown eyes.

Then the mistress sprang to her feet and withdrew a knife with a long sharp blade. She had never seen that kind of knife in her life, and she knew without