The Surrogate Virgin
For them, I could sit on that stand, I could face Vivienne one last time and I could win.
The safehouse was quieter than the motel, quieter than any place we’d been in months. Too quiet almost like the silence was waiting for us to fill it.
Nova slept in the bassinet a few feet away, a tiny rise and fall beneath her blanket, her lips parted just enough to make a faint sound like a sigh. I watched her for what felt like hours, the rhythm of her breathing dragging me back from the edge of panic again and again.
Every so often, my hand drifted to the strap of the document bag now tucked under the bed. The papers, the proof, the lies Vivienne had spun into our lives, all of it safe but no docume
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