**After One Year**

Aliyah stared at the little pregnancy test in her hand. Her heart pounded with anxiety… her hands trembled, but she kept her eyes fixed on it.

They had been trying for a child. Their sex life… mind-blowing, yet every month still ended with the same disappointment … her period.

Aliyah wanted to hold her child, to have a baby for the man she loved so much, proof of their love, and so Bethel would have a playmate.

“It’s almost time,” Aliyah whispered to ...