Chapter 99

Heather POV

I’ve been at this for nine days now. I haven’t found much about the curse itself. Most of it that has been in English has been accounts of when previous twins were killed. I’m waiting for Grandma Shaw to come tomorrow to translate some of the other diaries that are written in Gaelic. We were only able to translate a couple of words here and there. Not enough to tell us anything for sure. What I did find interesting was that all throughout my family tree there have been very few males born. There were a lot of unwed mothers, tragic and early deaths of husbands and male children and, in some cases, female children as well. The result of all these deaths was only one child from each women surviving long enough to have a child that reached adult hood to have a child. The original last name of the family was passed down until Grandma married Grandpa and changed her name, which means that the Blackwood family name is now gone. This fact seemed to bother the adult women more than