Amy's POVBrian left without answering my question. He just stood up, looked at me for a moment with that expression I couldn't fully read, but knew he was pained and walked out. The door closed behind him and I heard his footsteps move down the corridor and get quieter.I went back to planning. About twenty minutes later I felt the first thing.It was low, a tightening, slow and dull, that moved across the bottom of my stomach and then released. I had felt things like it before over the past months... the doctors called them practice contractions, said they were normal, said my body was preparing.I sat very still and waited to see if it came back. It didn't, at least not immediately. I filed it away and kept my face exactly the same. Thirty minutes after Brian left, the door opened again.The man who walked in was not what I was expecting.I don't know exactly what I had built Richard up to be in my head. Something harder maybe. Maybe someone that looked like the kind of person who
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