Chapter 0298


    There are two lines on the pregnancy test.


    Aauick nce at the little key to the side of the screen confirms what | already know.


    Pregnant.


    I''m pregnant.


    | feel everything drain from me in this moment — like all color, all life, all breath and joy floods from me as | stare at the little stick


    in my hands.


    “Shit,” | hear Jerome say, watching my response.


    “Fuuuuuuck,” Daniel hisses, turning away for a split second, his shoulders tense. | raise my eyes to watch him, to look between


    him and Jerome, desperate for...ConTEent bel0ngs to N?v(e)lD/rama(.)Org .


    For any solution.


    For anything at all, now that my world has turned upside down.


    Jerome’s eyes are on me. “It’s okay, Fay,” he says,ing forward to me slowly with his hands out, like he’s approaching a


    startled horse. And as | see the sympathy and the worry in his face, | feel myself start to tremble, feel my eyes start to fill with


    tears as my hands clutch around the test.


    Pregnant!


    | gasp in a sudden breath, all of my emotions and thoughts and panic snapping back into ce as my mind starts to whirl, frantic


    for a n, for a solution —


    “Oh my god,” | murmur, leaning back against the sink and staring down again at the test. “What are we going to d-*


    But | don’t get a chance to finish my sentence.


    Because we all go silent and perfectly still as we turn as one towards the bedroom door.


    Which Daniel didn’t lock behind him.


    And which now, quite slowly, is pressing open.


    “Shit shit shit,” Jerome starts to say, his whole body going rigid.


    Because we all know precisely who it is.


    Only one person left in this house woulde boldly into this room uninvited.


    “Give it to me,” Daniel hisses in a panic, hurrying forward, grabbing at my hands. But I’m frozen — absolutely frozen — as | watch


    Kent walk into the bedroom, watch him look around, and then watch him frown a little as he sees movement in the bathroom.


    “Fuck, Fay!” Daniel whispers, wing at my hand.


    Late — probably toote — | open my hand and let him take the test from me, which he quickly whips behind his back. | stay


    where | am, my lower back pressed against the sink, as Kent crosses the room andes to stand in the bathroom doorway


    and looks between the three of us.


    “What''s going on here,” Kent asks, stern, all business. He knows already that something is off — he’s too practiced at


    interrogation for us to hide anything from him now, especially since we''re all so clearly worked up. His eyes fix especially on


    Jerome, which makes sense — Daniel and | have a reason to be here.


    But Jerome?


    “What are you talking about, dad?” Daniel asks, too innocent. His voice is just barely higher than it usually would be, but it''s


    enough.


    “| heard shouting,” Kent replies


    evenly, slipping his hands into his


    pockets as he prepares himselon)


    question us, Hp wRSOSsI cool, as


    Aes e he always is at these


    moments. | can feel my body


    betraying me though, starting to


    shake again. | press my jaw shut,


    wondering how the hell we''re going


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    “It was nothing,” Daniel says with a shrug. But Kent ignores him.


    “Why are you here,” he asks, lifting his chin towards Jerome, ignoring me for the moment, though his eyes flick to me once,


    taking in my rigid form, my trembling muscles.


    “| —“ Jerome says,ing up with nothing. And I don’t me him, under the Mafia King’s heavy gaze. “I’m just...”


    “You''re just what,” Kent asks, taking a step forward towards him.


    “Um,” Jerome says, not looking at Kent, his eyes moving fast around the room as if looking for some sort of exnation. And


    then theynd on something on the floor that makes him go pale.


    My eyes follow his only a second


    before Kent''s do. And my blood


    freezes again ui peplize ?B60


    its (tg the Bok that the pregnancy


    test came in. Frowning, Kent steps


    forward, trying to get a better look,


    but Daniel takes a frantic step in his


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    “Stop,” Daniel says, putting one hand on Kent''s chest.


    Kent swipes the hand away and


    keeps moving, but Daniel shouts this


    time, telling his dad te-stap, muted!


    | in\t on Kent''s chest


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    Kent snarls at his son, ring at the deliberate opposition, but then he notices that Daniel is only using one hand to stop him. His


    eyes move swiftly to Daniel''s elbow, to where his arm disappears behind him.