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And as I passed Vik, e of tears, I whispered, “I asked you not to call him”

Mortified, I made it to my room before the tears fell

So hts but only one that mattered

What would Sasha think of me now?

Vik

“It’s tiuardedly

It was I could no longer do this on my own Worn down and broken, I nodded slowly, defeated, knowing I had failed to fix my issues on my own

And I talked

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Nastasia

It was odd, knowing I had a little huht I’d feel different soht uess I assuhter That I ht be consumed by a happiness never felt before Feel an optihed all doubts

But as I woke up drooling on my pillow, all I felt was tender in the tummy

I had to say—it was all rather anticlimactic

And as I groaned quietly, nuzzling ut-wrenchingly, that I was still a woman who had no plan, was a mess, and, worst of all, ithout her man

All that, and I was expected to be someone’s mother?

Hell That couldn’t be good, right?

I didn’t have a clear enough ht now, all I could do was take one small step at a time

After the initial positive, Iinto the drawers of the vanity to retrieve the bag of pregnancy tests Mina had left at my place One by one, I dipped them, used a dropper to fill the small hole, then waited for them to develop until my entire bathroom sink was covered in white plastic sticks

One after another, they all gave the same result