Aryyah stood in the bathroom of her hotel suite at seven in the morning, staring at the calendar app on her phone and counting days for the third time, hoping her math was somehow wrong; her period was twelve days late, which had never happened before, not even during the most stressful periods of her life, and the realization made her hands shake so badly she nearly dropped the phone.

She'd been ignoring the signs for almost a week, telling herself it was stress from the divorce proceedings, ...