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Chapter 11

Cameron

I lockedfor any sign that showed me she wasn’t serious

She couldn’t be serious

I wrapped it up Always I was meticulous about that shit

I knew that keeping her safe was all on me She’d put that intoShe didn’t want kids yet, and it was

I swayed a little on my feet

Then I couldn’t help it—I felt a s at the corners of my mouth

“You’re pregnant?” I asked stupidly,to pound

“Yeah” The as h than an actual sound

“Tha—that’s—”

“I don’t think I’ to have it,” she whispered

It took a second for me to understand her words, and when I did, nausea hit me fast and hard

“What do youto have it?”

“I’ether a little over a month, I can’t be—”

“Not that pregnant?” I asked sharply “You’ve either got my kid in there or you don’t”

“It’s just cells It’s just—”

“What?” my voice was louder than I’d planned, and it broke in the middle like a fourteen-year-old kid’s

“I’ to her feet “This is a fucking mistake!” She tucked her thumbs into her hands and dropped her head “It’s just a mistake”

A headache forhtness in my shoulders as I stared at her

“It’s fuckin’ ic”

“What?” she tilted her head up to look atwrecked

“This isforward to lay my hand on her belly “We were so careful I was so careful—and he’s still in there growin,’ anyway That’s fuckin’ ic”

Her head started shaking before she stepped backward, away froy We weren’t careful enough We weren’t—”