Anna stared at the doctor, paralyzed, as if his words were in a language she couldn’t understand. Her mind felt heavy, as though she were moving through water, slow, muffled, and disconnected from reality.

“Hello, Miss Hawkins?” the doctor said gently, his voice cutting through Anna’s daze and pulling her back to reality.

“Yeah… yeah,” Anna murmured, her voice barely more than a whisper.

“You are three weeks pregnant,” the doctor said again

The words hit her like a punch ...