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CHAPTER 34: LEO'S INFIDELITY
After a month, Rachel felt a strange feeling ! She wasn’t unwell or sick but she felt really uneasy with hyper acidity that she couldn't explain and persistent severe headaches. She experienced food cravings but noticed food reservations more.
She went to great lengths rationalizing and spending the better part of the week in suspense, inwardly turning the possibility over and over, taking an inventory of her own body, chanting what if, what if, what if.
She had been that woman: sure my period will come any day now but when she missed one, she turned and got her tests done in the hospital.
That same day, she received the two biggest pieces of news of her life.
She learnt that she was pregnant with her first child with Leo and received a letter about her scholarship grant for her admission to a top ivy league college on the other side of the country.
Rachel took both th
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