Pregnant After One Night With My Brother's Best Friend
My throat closes around the sound before it can fully form, some horrible, choked half noise the only thing that makes it out, and panic claws up through the haze thick enough to almost, almost cut through it.
"My boyfriend is Alaric Ford." The lie comes out desperate, shaking, some last, useless card I throw down because I have nothing else left to throw. "He's going to kill you. He'll find you."
The stranger laughs. Low, mocking, utterly unbothered.
"Sure he is, sweetheart." His hand tightens on my wrist. "Nice try."
He doesn't believe me. Of course he doesn't believe me. Nothing about tonight, about any of this, sounds believable, not even to me, standing here with my own body betraying m