It wasn't easy to sit here and pretend there wasn't something wrong. Because truth was, Annie had gone to bed every night that past week thinking about what Conner said to her. At first she had just been angry, but then she wondered how much truth was in it. She had excused this pregnancy as the worst thing that could happen to her, so was it really that off kilter for him to assume some of those horrible things he'd said? At almost three and a half months pregnant, she couldn't honestly say that she hadn't hoped to wake up and this all be some bad dream. While she was still angry at him for saying what he did, she couldn't just hide away from him. One of the things she'd spent a lot of time talking to Randy about over the past couple days was the fact that Conner was, after all, this ba

