LAURA

You’re pregnant.

Two words.

That was all it took to change my life.

The doctor’s words still echoed in my head even well over thirty minutes later.

I was pregnant. Pregnant as in with child. As in there was a minuscule human living inside of me. A tiny life growing inside of me.

A life I had taken part in creating.

While my thoughts were in utter chaos, I had to give it to myself; I was taking this quite well. I mean, I’d just found out that I was pregnant—something that had not been in my plan even in the furthest future. Hell, something that I wasn’t even...