Riley spent the next couple hours dozing on and off in her room, feeling worse as the time went on. Her chest hurt, her head pounded and her stomach churned. With nothing to do but feel terrible, Riley continued to replay her last confrontation with Kent. He was completely out of line, but she felt guilty. She had asked Patrick not to tell Kent about her illness and now she had put him in a bad position. She knew that if she had just been upfront with Kent, there wouldn’t have been the fight with Patrick.
A knock at the door pulled Riley out of her thoughts. She climbed slowly out of bed and opened the door to find a beautiful woman with long blonde hair pulled up in a bun. She smiled, her bright green eyes lighting up. She was also clearly very pregnant.
“Hi,” she said, holding out her
