His Toxic Love, Her Escape

g double shifts at a diner, had somehow landed Liam Hayes. He was the kind of guy you only see in m

irls he knew. He loved my honesty, my lack of pretense. For six months, I be

rapped in tissue paper in my purse, a tiny positive sign that was about to

o beg the bouncer just to get in. The air was thick with expensive perfume and the low thrum of m

his name, but then I stopped. His friends were laughing at something he'd just said.

, Liam?" one of his friends, a guy I

the crowd with a bored expression. The sound of his

Don't be r

caught in

ated she doesn't know up from down. She was just

lungs. A fun distraction. That's all I was. The dream shattered into a mi

gave me, the tender way he held my hand, it was al

d. People turned to look. I saw Liam's head snap in my dir

e at the disturbance. He didn't see me, Chloe, his

ress and effortless grace. She leaned in and whispered something in his ear, her lips curving

uts behind me. I just had to get out. The cold night air hit my face,

tears. I pulled the pregnancy test from my purse and stared at the little plus sign. This was supposed to be