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Chapter 54: Lucas
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2026-08-04 22:41:06
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Anastasia’s POV:She told me in my kitchen while I was making coffee.Not with ceremony. Not sitting me down or building toward it. She just walked in, put her bag on the counter, looked at me and said it.“I’m pregnant.”I put the coffee down.She looked at me with the expression she wore when she had been holding something large and had finally put it on a surface where someone else could help carry it.“How long have you known?” I said.“Four days,” she said. “I took three tests because I did not trust the first two.”“Did they all say the same thing?” I said.“Obviously,” she said. “That’s why I’m telling you.”I looked at her.She looked back.“Are you happy?” I said.She pressed her lips together in the way she did when something was real enough that she was not going to be casual about it.“Terrified,” she said. “And yes. Both.”I came around the counter and hugged her and she held on properly and I felt her exhale into my shoulder the way she did when she had been holding hers
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Anastasia’s POV:Gerard met the children on a Sunday that smelled like cut grass and Lucas had been quietly dreading for three weeks.Not dreading in the way of something he did not want. Dreading in the way of something he wanted so much that the possibility of it going wrong had become its own specific weight. I had watched him manage it the way he managed things that cost him something, with the particular stillness of a man holding himself together in a public space and hoping nobody looked too closely.I had looked closely.I always did.We met at a park on the north end of the city because parks were neutral and children could run if they needed to and the open air meant nobody felt trapped and I had suggested it and Lucas had said yes immediately in the tone that meant he was relieved someone had made the decision.Gerard was already there when we arrived.He was sitting on a bench near the entrance with his hands on his knees and he stood when he saw us and for a moment before
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