Avery's POV

I did not step outside. The man looked like he expected me to be scared enough to obey. Maybe yesterday I would have been. Maybe before my wedding, before Damian, before my mother died and a dead man on the internet threatened my father.

Not today.

Avery's POV

Adrian came home a little after one in the morning. Maya had refused to leave me alone after what happened with Damian's man, so she was asleep in the guest room while I sat at the dining table with my laptop, my phone and the screenshots from the

Avery's POV

The next morning, Maya drove me to a different clinic. Not the one from yesterday. I wanted another doctor, another lab and another set of eyes looking at the result before I built the rest of my life around one sentence.

You're pregnant.

The words