CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHRISTMAS WAS JUST days away, but Atabey Industries ran full steam ahead until the last minute. We had a three-day week, giving us just enough time to prepare for the holiday. My parents were flying up to spend the weekend with me.
Julian and I hadn’t spent much time together since Miami, and I wasn’t sure what his thoughts were about the pregnancy that wasn’t. He didn’t breathe a sigh of relief as I’d expected. It was hard to decipher his feelings since he was practically a closed book, and I’d been both emotional from the stress and hormonal at the time. I found out I was in the clear Friday when my period showed up but had already gone to an appointment earlier in the week to get myself back on birth control. I didn’t want another scare like that.
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