Chapter 26 - Confess

I walk through my front door and hear my mother wrestling around in the kitchen. I bet she decided the deep clean the whole place, even though it doesn’t need it. I close the door behind me and take a deep breath, this is it. I walk in that direction bracing myself for what might be the toughest conversation of my life. I’m nervous about telling her that I’m pregnant. My mother doesn’t believe in having kids outside of marriage.

I can still remember the awkward and painful conversation she had with me when I was 17. She laid down the rules and put the fear in me. The weird thing is I had just lost my virginity and it was with Kane. I was terrified she had somehow found out what we had done but she didn’t know. She thinks I lost my virginity in my 20s.

But today I have to tell Kane her that that same boy is going to be the father of my child. I guess nothing has changed.

I stop at the kitchen doorway giving myself a moment to gather my thoughts. I’m scared she’s going to be disappoin