The room went so quiet I could hear my own pulse beating through the bandages on my arm.

“What?” My father’s tone dropped, his gaze fully on me now.

My fingers twitched. I wasn’t exactly afraid. I just wasn’t expecting that he would get to know today. I had never planned ahead for the day he would find out about us.

Bianca might have been a brat for running her mouth, but the truth? It didn’t rattle me. It was already out there, living inside me.

His voice came out more pressured, ...