Layla's POV.I don’t remember how long I stood there.Time didn’t move the way it was supposed to anymore; it stretched so long as I remained rooted in front of the sink, my fingers gripping its edge so tightly that my knuckles turned pale, my eyes locked on the pregnancy test like it had just rewritten the entire course of my life in two quiet, merciless lines.Positive.The word echoed in my mind, louder than anything I had heard in months, louder than than the heartbreak, louder than every argument, every tear, every moment that had led me here.Positive.“No…” I whispered again, though it sounded weaker this time, like even I didn’t believe it anymore, like I was clinging to denial out of sheer instinct rather than logic.My hand trembled as I reached for the test, lifting it slowly as though it might burn me, as though touching it would make it more real than it already was, and for a brief, irrational moment, I turned it slightly, squinting at it from another angle, as though th
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