Evelyn POV
I fall asleep next to Thaddeus and Ryland. Orion brings back movies, and I don’t even last through one. The next day I wake up, and Thaddeus and Ryland are gone. Sitting up, I find Orion on the bed next to me, reading a sheet of paper with a box in his lap.
“Good, you’re up,” he states, putting the paper down.
“Where did Thaddeus and Ryland go?” I ask.
“Out. Thaddeus needs more blood. Now tell me, and don’t lie to me.”
I look down in his lap at the box that sits there. It is a pregnancy test, and my heart rate picks up just by the sight of it.
“So, I guess I am correct in assuming that is why you were staring at your belly when I walked in and why you refused a smoke when Ryland offered it,” he states. I say nothing, just look away from him. “Well, you can’t be that fa
