POV: Siena Blake

Pregnancy didn’t come with a rulebook.

No one told me how to do it—how to survive it—when my entire life was falling apart around me. There were no step-by-step guides on how to stay strong when your name was dragged through gossip, when your past haunted you like a shadow, and when the man who fathered your child didn’t even know you existed… or worse, didn’t care.

But somehow, I made it through each day.

Even when I could barely stand. Even when my legs trembled, my heart felt heavy, and my stomach turned in ways I didn’t understand. The morning sickness was worse than I’d ever...