Contract of Hearts
She thought about the darkness they'd been drowning in, the way it had seeped into their bones, the way they'd stopped fighting it and started embracing it.
Could she bring a child into this?
Could she not?
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Kieran found her an hour later, still sitting on the bathroom floor, the test clutched in her hands.
He took one look at her face, at the plastic stick, and went very still.
"Mira."
"I'm pregnant." Her voice was flat, hollow. "I didn't plan it. I didn't even think about it. We've been so careful—except that one time, in the basement, when we—" She stopped, her throat closing. "I'm pregnant."
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