Chapter 39: Madison

Tears rolled as I stared at the single line on the pregnancy test. The plump drops didn’t come because of sadness or joy, I was crying because, for the last minute, I had forgotten how to blink. The burn and sting in my eyes grew sharper, a physical echo of the seismic shock still coursing through me after the world-quaking news I’d just received. 

My heart pounded like an uncontrollable wild thing against my chest, and my breath caught in a choking gasp. 

I’d messed up. I should have gotten on contraceptives before allowing sex to happen! But while my relationship with Noah had kept bouncing back and forth between hot and cold at that time, he’d made it clear that he believed himself to be infertile. Then again, Chris wouldn’t exist if that was completely true… 

Ugh, I’m such an idiot. My throat burned with the urge to throw up, scream, or both. Wonderful. How utterly fantastic!