Chapter 41

It was raining when their flight landed in Chicago, and Felicity couldn't help but think the dreary cold wet matched her mood. The entire flight back, Jared had been immersed in work, with his laptop on with contracts and spreadsheets on his lap. Part of her had wished she'd changed her mind and stayed in Nebraska a few more days. She could have talked to her mother about the baby, the dos and don'ts, and everything else a newly-pregnant woman needed to know.

Now here she was, back in a city with hundreds of thousands of people, and she felt more isolated and alone than she'd ever been in her life. A whole other human now depended on her, was growing inside of her, and she was terrified that she wouldn't do all the right things to give the baby the life it deserved.