Chapter 43

Maria's POV.

With the huge pounding in my head and the pain in my arms, I tried to open my eyes which was fluttering open and closing at the same time. I groaned again, holding my head in my hands. I tried to open my eyes, but everything was dark and swirly. I took a minute to calm myself and then opened my eyes. 

I was met with emptiness. I started breathing heavily when the actions of Beverly finally kicked in. She pushed me down the stairs. I could have died or the baby. 

The baby. 

I tried to sit down uprightly and rested my back on the wall. No blood. Thank God. My eyes scannee around and this place looks like an incomplete building, or someone is just moving in. There was a single bulb that was illuminating the entire room. I looked around, looking for an escape or even for Beverly but she was not in the room. A few feet away from me, there is a staircase that leads upstairs that