the same thing." I dropped the packet on the bench between us like it had burned my hand. "I'm not kidding Myra. I know you wish I am, but I'm not. You've been si

talk. I'm not pregnant, okay? I can't be. W

ry t

d in a dysfunctional family, and I would not do that to a kid. Plus my career had just started, what part of my life would a k

d Dreams, he had bent me over in his

, I knew I was wrong. It dawned on me that I could not recall my last p

tched the box out for me again. "Just get it over with. I might be w

right, and I'll

n the packet reluctantly. When I was locked securely in one of the stalls, wit

yra, I hope you don't plan o

m just waiting for the results to com

es, it should b

and got up from the toilet seat to look at it in t

t does the test say?" she wri

t's faulty-let me try

for good measure. They all came back the same. Positive. "You can't spend the rest of your da

e. I was really pregnant. "We've always been safe."

ancy, your life will be on easy street. Look how much traffic your career has gotten in two years. The rumors ab

ter I asked, no questions about what I wanted it for. That was how it had always been. He didn't know me. He never as

doesn't wa

you be

at the

tly right now. If SHE didn't enter the picture I would have a strong believe that somehow Pierce and I would work things out, tha

ice. "I don't know the first thing about taking care of a child, I have my mum and siste

re serious about

still wanted me in his life. My voice lowered to

are with the pregnancy and the health of the baby, deal with that problem first. I would come with you for moral support, bu

. All I could think of was the fact that I had a mini Pierc

got t

*

e told me that I would get the gestational age of my baby the following week when they compile my blood test and ultrasound. The

my tummy and it was mine. Correction, mine and Pierce's. I imagined a world where he would be excited to hear the news. Where he would plant

e, and told me congratulations be

N I fired a call to Hannah.

So

xt week, I was told I would g

" she sounded like sh

ibe my mushy feelings, but the words died in my mouth when I spotted Pierce a fe