Chapter 4

Owen didn't answer me. He kept moving the probe, zooming in and out, his expression growing stranger by the second.

The air in the ultrasound room felt like it had frozen solid.

After five long minutes, Owen suddenly looked up at me like I was some kind of monster. "Yara, have you switched doctors lately? Or tried any special treatments?"

I was totally lost. "No. Why?"

Owen took a deep breath.

He pointed at the screen, enunciating each word, and delivered a sentence that knocked the soul right out of my body. "You're pregnant.

"Judging by the gestational sac size,…