“What?”
She nodded.
“We need to confirm it with additional testing.”
Rebecca covered her mouth.
The detective immediately stood.
“If Caroline is pregnant, then we need to know why Luke’s messages refer to her next pregnancy.”
I looked at the phone again.
The last message from D. had arrived only three days earlier.
I hadn’t noticed it before.
The detective read it aloud.
D: If she survives this time, we lose everything.
The room went silent.
I touched my abdomen.
For years, Luke had told me I was incapable of being a mother.
Now, for the first time, I wondered whether he had been terrified of exactly the opposite.
The detective picked up her phone.
“We need to find this D.”
I looked at the message.
Then at my sister.
Then at the doctor.
