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Chapters (62)
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Books by Katie Powner
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. TWENTY-NINE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. THIRTY-FIVE
  42. THIRTY-SIX
  43. THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. THIRTY-NINE
  46. FORTY
  47. FORTY-ONE
  48. FORTY-TWO
  49. FORTY-THREE
  50. FORTY-FOUR
  51. FORTY-FIVE
  52. FORTY-SIX
  53. FORTY-SEVEN
  54. FORTY-EIGHT
  55. FORTY-NINE
  56. FIFTY
  57. FIFTY-ONE
  58. FIFTY-TWO
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. About the Author
  61. Back Ads
  62. Back Cover

Amber nodded. As Bea turned away and hurried into the school, Amber’s yelp of pain continued to ring in her mind. She wanted to let Amber know she was concerned. Wanted to ask her what exactly Axel’s intentions were. Wanted to make sure her friend was okay.

But she still really needed to pee.

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Bea’s eyelids drooped as she lay beside Jeremy in bed, watching Netflix on her phone while he worked on his laptop. She tried to focus on her show, but the click-click-click of the keys as Jeremy typed seemed to pound out the words she hadn’t been able to get out of her mind. “I need you to choose me. I need you to choose me.” The same words that had been hanging over her head every day since the snowstorm.

She rubbed her eyes and swiped the screen to shut off her show. Did Jeremy think about that conversation all the time, too?

Her body sagged. She couldn’t wait for her first trimester to be over. The app Jeremy had downloaded said the extreme fatigue should fade soon. She pulled her earbuds out and set everything on her bedside table.

“You throwing in the towel?” Jeremy asked.

She nestled deeper under the covers and closed her eyes. “Mm-hmm.”

“Mind if I work a little longer?”

“It won’t bother me any.”

She rolled on her side and wriggled so her back pressed against Jeremy’s side. She wanted to be close to him. Feel his warmth. Tucked up against him like that, she felt safe. The tickety-tick as he continued to type lulled her toward sleep. “I need you to choose me. I need you to choose me.”

“Bea? You still awake?”

She startled and opened her eyes. “Yep.”

“I’ve been thinking.”

“Okay.”

“Remember when I said I would do some digging about your grandma losing a baby? I thought there might be a record of it.”

“Uh-huh.”

“I never found anything.”

Her eyelids drooped again. “Maybe we were wrong.”

“Exactly. Do you think there’s any chance your grandma’s aunt Gladys is still alive?”

“What?”

“I know she’d be pretty old, but there’s a chance, right?”

Bea’s sleepy brain worked to keep up with Jeremy. “She’d be in her late eighties at least.”

“I’m going to search for her online. Do you think she still lives in Chicago?”

“I don’t know.” She yawned. Why was Jeremy so interested in Great-Aunt Gladys? “Grandma’s never really talked about her. And when Grandpa Rand said they got married after Grandma’s visit to Chicago, that was the first I’d ever heard of any trip out east.”

His fingers continued tapping on the keyboard. “Doesn’t that make you wonder?”