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80: No

Author: Aria Wilde
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-05 22:10:18

Camilla’s Pov

I didn’t mean to watch it. The TV was just on.

I was half-lying on the chaise, flipping through a baby catalog with glossy pages filled with things I hadn’t even ordered yet—cashmere blankets, a custom crib that cost more than my first apartment, organic pillows shaped like little clouds.

My lover sat on the other end of the couch, scrolling through her phone like she hadn’t been bored out of her mind for the past three days. She barely looked at me anymore. Which was fine. I wasn’t exactly in a sharing emotions kind of mood right now.

The midwife hadn’t texted back. I’d called her three times already today.

I sighed, then tossed the catalog down and adjusted my robe. “You’d think with the amount I’m paying, I wouldn’t be left on read.”

She still said nothing, just the tap of her fake nails on glass.

And then—like a slap I didn’t see coming—the anchor’s voice from the television cut through the room.

“Coming up next: Jax Maddox and his public confirmation of the relation
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