Chapter 34: One Month Later

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One month later, Rebecca sat on the toilet in the master bath in the condo, staring down in disbelief at the white stick in her hand. It was a pregnancy test. A positive pregnancy test. It was the fourth one she'd taken. After the first one had turned positive, she'd been sure it must be a fluke. A mistake. So she'd gone to a 24-hour pharmacy and bought three more tests, each one a different brand than the first one. And every single one had come up positive. How had this happened? Well, she knew how it had happened given that they'd had s*x every day—sometimes twice a day—for the last month. That wasn't altogether unusual for a newly married couple, granted, but theirs was supposed to be a pretend marriage. It had morphed, by tacit and mutual consent, into a pretend marriage with ben

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