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CHAPTER ONE
Six years ago
Could my life get any worse?
Anne Walker’s hand trembled as she swiped at the tears streaming down her cheeks. She pushed back her damp hair clinging tenaciously to her face and sank back on her pillow—her now very soggy pillow.
How did she ever get into this position?
That was a stupid question. She thought she was in looove.
Anne didn’t sleep a wink last night because of the knots in her stomach, not to mention the inability to turn her mind off her problems. She tossed and turned and woke up feeling drained.
Dawn was fast approaching, and she needed to get up soon for class—a class she didn’t want to attend today.
What difference would it make if she missed her early childhood development class? Or, for that matter, any of her classes? She just wanted to lie in bed and wallow in self-pity.
“Jason, please don’t leave.”
Anne’s pleas fell on deaf ears. She had been so happy last night. Jason came over for dinner and she presented her joyful news. It didn’t go over well.
The painful memory of her boyfriend—the father of her unborn child—flipping her the bird, getting into his car, then driving out of her life played on repeat in her head like a bad movie. The pain of abandonment pierced her heart. He left her crying in the parking lot.
He had been upset because she accused him of cheating on her. Sure, she accused him, but only because two of her friends confirmed they saw him cozying up with another woman. Anne hoped he would deny it.
Sure, she could claim her pregnancy hormones were going a little crazy, but he couldn’t deny he got her pregnant, or so she thought.
Jason’s once warm blue eyes turned cold and hard. “I knew you were a conniving bitch, always talking about marriage,” he sneered. “Did you really think I want to be tied down at my age, especially with a little brat?”
Anne’s stomach roiled. Had Jason dated her so she would pay for things, or was it just for the sex?
He stabbed his finger at her. “You said you were on birth control.”
“Jason,” she pleaded, reaching out for him. “I didn’t lie about that. You’ve got to…”
“Liar.”
Yeah, as if being on birth control guaranteed someone would never get pregnant. Jason stood as still as a statue, his nostrils flaring, his breathing loud, shaking his head like she was the stupidest person alive.
“We used condoms. Remember?” Jason added.
Anne shook her head and sighed. This conversation was going nowhere.
“Remember that one time?” she reminded him, referring to that one time a couple of months ago when Anne noticed his condom leaking.
Jason’s answer for the leaky condom—she poked holes in it.
“I would never do something so awful,” she angrily replied.
Then he accused her of trying to trick him into marrying her. Riiight. As if she now wanted the lying, cheating bastard after showing her his true colors.
And Jason, the scumbag, turned and walked away, abandoning her when she needed him most.
“You’re just leaving? You don’t feel any responsibility for me or the baby?” Her voice rose in anger.
Although they’d dated for a year, they never discussed a future together. Anne always assumed marriage was a given. Instead, Jason cheated and lied, and now the douchebag left her pregnant.
The coup de grâce was when Jason stared her in the eyes and coldly told her to get an abortion.
