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Music up, roll credits

Except this wasn’t a fil Ryan

This was real life, they hardly knew each other except in the biblical sense of the word—and that hat had gotten him into this situation in the first place

A rush of ice water seeh his veins

He wasn’t interested intime And when he did, it wouldn’t be to a woer

So, it wasn’t a proposal that ca far more basic

“You said you were on the pill”

“I was” Her words were clipped “And it’s 999 percent effective, says the little brochure that comes with it”

“Yeah Okay But—”

“But it turns out I’m that one percent Sorry That point-one percent” She h “Terrific, right? A thing works virtually all the time … except when it doesn’t” She looked at him, saw the expression on his face and her chin came up “You knohat? If you didn’t want to know, or if you don’t want to believe me, you shouldn’t have asked”

She was right

And the a was, he believed her

On a pragmatic level, why else would she have been fully prepared to take the CVS test?

And on a level that had nothing to do with prage was the woht No ement” with David Caldwell, Caleb knew she wouldn’t lie, especially about so like this

“I believe you,” he said quietly “It’s just—it’s a lot to take in”