ALINA'S POV
“You did what?” Thea screeched in my ear, and I winced at her high pitched voice. “Please tell me I heard wrong!”
“Geez, woman. Calm down. My ears will bleed if you continue doing that.”
“What the hell were you thinking, Alina?”
My mind pondered back to the day I found out I was pregnant with Asher.
Flashback
Sitting on the edge of the toilet seat, my hands shook uncontrollably as tears cascaded down my cheeks. The pregnancy test in my grasp felt like a damning verdict, confirming the truth I had been desperately trying to deny: I was carrying Theodore's baby. No matter how hard I tried to distance myself from him, he had managed to leave his mark on me in the most irreversible way possible.
Lost in a whirlwind of fear and despair, a knock on the bathroom door startl
