Chapter 215
~ Hailey ~
I woke to sharp cramps low in my abdomen, the kind that stole my breath for a second and made my body instinctively curl inward. My eyes flew open, heart pounding, and my first thought—desperate, irrationally hopeful—was that maybe this was my period.
Maybe the hospital had been wrong.
Maybe the blood test had been a false positive, a fluke caused by stress or medication or trauma. Maybe my body was just reacting to everything it had been through and sending confusing signals.
Maybe this pain meant I wasn’t pregnant after all.
I clung to the idea like a lifeline.
I reached for my phone on the nightstand, fingers trembling as I unlocked it. The room was still dim, early morning light barely creeping through the curtains. Nathaniel must still be in the living ro
