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Mission acco into town, chewing her left thu to worry aboutto be positive Her boobs hurt so bad Her abdo aisle at the nearest drug store and grabbed the top brands of tests she’d heard of and headed for the checkout counter, daring the girl working there to even look at her funny She didn’t, of course It wasn’t like that girl fking cared that Gabby’s life was about to be turned upside down, all her plans laid to waste
Okay, she told herself as she huffed it back to her car in this infernal daood for her nausea Nothing was laid to waste here People had kids in medical school It could be done One couple she’d known froht they were insane, but whatever Their reasoning was their schedules weren’t going to get any better froo for it
If they could do it, so could she So sure she wasn’t around any X-ray procedures, and she’d be fine
She felt insane herself right noith the way her e back and forth Hor to hyperventilate
A cop pulled her over for speeding on her way home She wanted to scream at him that she ith child and what the hell did he expect? But she doubted he’d be ood that she’d kept her cool If Alexander Ross had to bail his daughter out of jail, he’d da hell, her parents!
It was enough to almost make her stay on the side of the road and sob into her steering wheel, but then the cop expected her to ear and eased onto the road Once he’d disappeared in the opposite direction, she sped off again
Thankfully, her e She didn’t have to hide her purchases from anyone as she climbed the stairs, and she didn’t have to worry about anyone seeing her dash the rest of the way, because all this otten to her and she was truly about to break her no-vomit streak
That accomplished, she sat on the toilet and opened one of the tests
It reco pee "To hell with that," she hteen hours Good or bad, she had to know If it was good, then she could relax…though the odds of that see second If it was bad… Well, she’d knohat she was dealing with
Tossing the box and directions on the floor, she took the test And then sat and stared at the littlethat would seal her fate one way or the other It would either give her one line for negative, or a plus sign for positive
Maybe she couldn’t watch after all Lifting her gaze, she stared blindly at the peach-colored wall across froing on the rack Above it was a picture that had been there since she was a little girl--a watercolor of a little dark-haired girl in dress and hat and flowing ribbons, holding a basket of flowers Her irl
This wasn’t supposed to be happening here
Closing her eyes, she tilted her head down, and opened the ten feet tall on that white test strip, stared her in the face
"Fuck," she breathed "Oh, fk otten her into this nals, and Ian was picking up on them She’d come in for a little infinity symbol on her wrist, which only took hih flash, trying to decide what she wanted to get next time, or so she said
And, well, she was hot Blue-eyed and petite and wearing a bright, airy, sued her hips just above jeans that accentuated her ass The single guys were openly staring, while the taken guy--only Ghost at the moment--kept his eyes resolutely elsewhere It was pretty funny