And what an effort that must have taken, to conceal her changing shape for months and months, to hide the morning sickness and all the other alterations of her health and body. “You never saw a doctor?”
She sighed. “A few times. I went to Planned Parenthood, went someplace where no one would know me. I didn’t know what else to do. I kept thinking I should tell someone — it’s not the end of the world to have a child out of wedlock when you’re in a witch clan, even if the father happens to be a member of a different clan. But….”
“But?” Sloane prompted.
“But he came back to see me. Your father. Garrett Walker.”
“He knew you were pregnant?”
“He guessed. He found me, and came up and put his hands on my belly.” Nora stopped there, one hand touching her flat stomach as if she could still fee
