"Mindy!" Seth yelled.

He ran into his house and found her in the living room with a bottle of whiskey on the coffee table. There was a glass with ice and still a few sips of whiskey left in it. He didn't blame her for needing to drink today. He understood the pressure put on her.

When they first met and she started telling him about this whole curse placed upon her, it was a lot to take in. For some reason he always believed her though, even though it sounded crazy at first. Every woman in her family had a year to get pregnant after they turned 30. Once they were pregnant, they would enter a house that their mother had been in for the last 30 years. It was their turn to guard that house for 30 years without any contact to anyone they knew. She didn't know why she was supposed to guard it. No one would ever tell her the full story.

"Are you okay?" He asked.
"No," she raised her eyes and looked at him. "I'm running out of time, Seth."

He sat down next to her and gave her a kiss before looking at the book in her lap.

"What's that?" He asked.
"Their sacred book. I stole a copy," she said.
"Anything useful?" He asked.
"Remember how I said I always knew that their leader Finn was part something else? He never wanted to tell me what. Only that someone in his bloodline made some sort of deal way back in the days to guard that house. In exhange of what you may ask? To be permitted to be cruel without any consequences. Look," she said.

She pointed down on the page. The Balor name stood out.

"He's part demon," she sighed. "They made a fucking deal with some fucking demons to fuck over women. I'm fucked, Seth."
"Nice use of the F word," he chuckled.
"It's not a fucking joke!" She raised her voice. "I will have to give birth by myself, give away the child, and then stay alone for the next 30 years guarding a house I never fucking wanted in the first place because it's my so called duty or legacy or whatever."
"Sorry," he said. "Okay, he's part demon. Anything about the deal?"
"Demons just like to hurt people. So do these people part of the deal. Inside that house they can come and go as they please. They can do whatever they want to me without me ever being able to understand or stop it. Humans, demons and apparently something in between like Finn will use me as their personal toy for 30 years. They're gonna hurt me, Seth. Like really fucking bad. And no one will ever know," she said.

She sighed and looked at him.

"I need you to get me pregnant," she said.
"But we agreed on no children," he said.
"I got a plan," she said. "I need you to get me something. Once I enter that house, it will take over my mind and I won't be able to fight it no matter how hard I try. I will be a mind controlled puppet. I need the house to spit me back out."
"What if it makes you kill yourself instead?" He asked.
"I'd rather be dead than suffer inside those walls," she said.

She placed the book on the table and turned to face him again. She gently grabbed his face and kissed him.

"I can't lose you," he whispered. "Not like this. I can't fucking lose you like this, Mindy."
"You won't," she said. "Trust me."

He nodded despite tears slowly rolling down his cheeks. He was not ashamed of crying in front of her. She smiled sadly at him while her own eyes started spilling tears too.

"I will not enter until the day before my birthday at the very last hour," she said. "I need to do this the right way so they won't have a chance for a second try before I turn 31."
"You better come back to me," he said.
"I'm coming back to you," she said. "That's a fucking promise."