![]() ![]() ![]() Did Lauren imagine the entire ordeal?īut as the story progresses, it appears that the strange woman may well have followed through on her threat. Jo Harper, a police officer, turns up in response to Lauren’s report of attempted child abduction - but she is left with no solid evidence to go on. Nobody else claims to have seen her, and there is no CCTV footage to back up Lauren’s claim. When Lauren returns, the stranger is nowhere to be seen. What’s fair?” Lauren struggles loose and flees with her children, while the strange woman replaces her offer with a threat: if she is not given one of Lauren’s babies, she will take both of them. “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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