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Two.
The morning of day one.
The test is 99.7 percent accurate three days before. It's 99.9 percent one day before.
I could wait until tomorrow. To see if I actually…
But I can't handle that level of disappointment.
I need to know now.
I meet at his place, but I don't bring dinner. I bring a stack of pregnancy tests. "What if I'm not?"
"What if you are?"
I'm not sure which is scarier.
Chapter Forty
Ariel
Iwrap my fingers around the plastic stick. This is the fourth time.
I checked every day with my last cycle. I thought, maybe I had the timing off, that I got it wrong.
Today…
There's only one more chance. One more month. If I'm not—
I can push my doctor's orders, but…
Fuck. I suck in a deep breath. Push out a heavy exhale. I need to think about something else. Anything else.
Chase runs his fingers through my hair.
The gesture is calming. He's way too calming. It's wrong.
"I… uh… will you come?" I ask.
"After this? Sure. However you want me, princess."
"No, uh. I mean, yes, but to Thanksgiving?"
"That's in two days."
"Yeah." I bite my lip. "I know it's last minute. But Dad is home and Forest and Holden will be there. And Skye will stop by. And, uh… I'd like it if you were there."
"Won't Forest—"
"He hasn't invited you?"
"He has, but—" He plants his hand under my chin. Tilts me so we're eye to eye. "I can stop by."
"Oh."
"Keating Thanksgiving is a big thing now."
"No, you should… I don't want to—"
