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“Jimmy, tell me the truth,” I say, suddenly panicked.
Jimmy can’t tell me if it’s something bad, can he? If it’s...God forbid, something like...cancer, there’s no way he can test for that here.
“I am telling the truth,” he says, and gets into his car without another word.
I head back into the house and knock on the open doorjamb. “Aurora?”
“Hmm?” she mumbles, as if she’s half asleep, and I sit down on the edge of the bed, taking her right hand in mine.
“What happened? What did he say?”
“It’s nothing,” she says, looking up at me with wide brown eyes. “I’ll take care of it.”
“What do you mean, you’lltake care of it?”
She frowns. “You don’t have to do anything, Nico. Don’t worry about it.”
“Aurora, what the hell are youtalkingabout?”
She looks at me for a long moment.
“I’m pregnant,” she says finally, and it’s like all the oxygen goes out of the room.
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AURORA
Nico looks at me, shocked, his face paling, and then he just stands up and walks out of the room. He doesn’t say a word to me, and I don’t follow.
My head is spinning from the drugs and the trauma and the shock of Jimmy telling me that I’m pregnant.
He said there was no way to tell how far along I am without ultrasound equipment, but I haven’t been with anyone else for years, and I know the baby I’m carrying is Nico’s. He must know it, too, because he hasn’t questioned me.
I was happy at first, almost felt giddy.
Jimmy was just looking at me with intense blue eyes.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“What?” I felt out of it from the drugs, like this might be a dream I was having.
“Do you want to...take care of it? I have my ways,” he said mysteriously, and I shook my head, shocked.
“No. No, I want...I want the baby,” I said finally.
He nodded. “Then I’ll leave these prenatal vitamins. Take them every day, and do your best to keep things down. I’ll leave some nausea medication, too.”
“The drugs you gave me...are they bad for the baby?” I asked, worried, and Jimmy shook his head.
“They won’t hurt the baby, don’t worry.”
I thought to myself that I was going to take it easy on them, just in case.
“Prenatal vitamins, one a day,” he said, taking a small bottle out of his bag. I wondered how often he dealt with pregnant women that he just had it in his bag. Then he took out another, smaller bottle. “Nausea medication, as needed, but no more than one every six hours,” he warned.
I just nodded, still shocked.
“Are...are you sure?” I asked.
