Chapter 4

For a second, I thought I'd misheard. "What did you say?" I asked.

"I said, I have a child," Elizabeth said again, her voice steady. "It's his kid."

I gripped the doorframe, my nails digging into the paint. "Where's the kid?" I asked.

"With my mom," Elizabeth replied. "The kid's three now."

The kid was three now? Three years ago, that was 2021. I was pregnant that year, too.

I found out I was pregnant in February. I was so excited when I told Mike, but he just seemed indifferent.

"Now's not the right time to have a baby," he…