Devil in the Womb
"Natalie, congratulations! This one's for real—you're pregnant with your second. You've got both a son and a daughter now; there's no happier mother than you!"
A familiar voice buzzed in my ear. I flung my eyes open and saw my best friend, Ashley Lemmon, holding the ultrasound printout. Only then did I finally believe I had truly been reborn.
When my husband, Sean Newman, learned the second child would be a boy, he beamed. Our daughter, Julie Newman, who was about to graduate from university, and Sean argued over who would name the baby.