ANABEL'S POV I stood frozen on the spot, my eyes wide with shock and my mouth hanging open as a hard lump formed in my throat. I tried to swallow, but I couldn't. It felt as though my entire body had suddenly stopped functioning properly. Was it just my ears, or did I really hear Cierra say she was pregnant? A small scoff escaped me as I shook my head in disbelief. No. It wasn't possible. I must have heard wrong. My emotions were probably playing tricks on me. Maybe I was already expecting something terrible, and my brain was filling in words that had never actually been spoken. That had to be it. Because how could that even be possible? Miles always used condoms whenever we had s*x. He used to say he wasn't ready for kids yet and I had believed him. Even though it had been a long

