She'd essentially stopped taking birth control without meaning to, and then she'd continued having sex with Jackson, and now she was pregnant with what was almost certainly his baby.

Aryyah set down her phone and pressed her palms against her eyes, trying to hold back tears that wanted to come; this pregnancy was the result of carelessness and bad timing, conceived in a marriage she was trying to escape with a man she no longer loved, and now it would tie her to Jackson forever regardless of ...