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(Flashback cont'd)
"You are pregnant, Claire."
My mouth hung open in bewilderment. I am pregnant. I am.... Pregnant!!!
I touched my stomach. I could feel nothing there. But with the disclosure of the news, my body became highly conscious.
"How could I still have him? I fell down the stairs and...." My words faded out as I was too startled to reason out how it was even possible.
"The doctors are shocked too. But the baby is a persistent little devil. Definitely his father's offspring. He's holding onto you somehow." Penelope shrugged her shoulders.
I didn't like her calling my baby a devil though.
We both remained silent for a while. Sobs harrowed through my body as all the events that transpired in the last few days plummeted into my consciousness.
I was pregnant. I had
