So whatever grievances exist between you two stay outside that door.”

Her tone stung, but I had no right to be defensive.

“I honestly had no idea she was pregnant,” I said quietly.

Dr.

Lindqvist studied my face for a long moment.

“According to Rosalie,” she said, “she tried extraordinarily hard to tell you.

Many times.” And that single sentence was the first crack in the comfortable story I had been telling myself for half a year.

I took a breath, and opened the heavy door, and stepped inside.