Black Cipher Files Box Set by Lisa Hughey

Author:Lisa Hughey [Hughey, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisa Hughey

Chapter 23

In the minimalist room, the loud roar of silence was heavy.

No one moved. I was frozen, as if someone had impaled a giant spike through the middle of my body and literally nailed me to the floor.

No one spoke. We all just stood there as if struck mute.

Really. I had heard her. I knew what she said. She hadn’t been speaking in tongues, except, except....

“Madre de Dios,” Jordan whispered.

“Fuck,” was my more succinct reply.

“I would say that is what got you this way,” Thea said briskly.

Ha, ha. Suddenly she’s a comedienne?

I couldn’t be pregnant. I was on the pill. And we used condoms.

“You weren’t raped?” Jordan asked again with just a little too much urgency for me. Was he looking for a way out? A ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card. And then I stopped that thought. Of course he didn't want me to be raped.

But the horrified look on his face spurred me on. “No luck for you, huh?”

“What!?”

“Maybe you’re hoping I’ve miraculously had sex with someone else between leaving you in D.C., getting thrown in an Afghan prison, escaping, and being on the run. Yeah, it’s been a regular sex-fest.” I grabbed his leather backpack. I knew I was being unfair but the words just kept spewing out.

Thea’s eyes widened as she looked at Jordan. I knew what she was thinking. You had sex with her?

“Yes. He had sex with me. Apparently one too many times. Right, amigo?”

I opened the flap and started rifling through the contents looking for his wallet.

“I...I’m going to write you a prescription for some pre-natal vitamins. Which you should start taking right away.”

I pulled out his wallet, opened up the shiny crocodile skin and grabbed a few Benjamins.

I ignored her. I couldn’t fill a prescription under my name.

“What’s the best over-the-counter vitamin?” I worked on keeping my cool as the reality of her diagnosis sunk in.

“You need to see an obstetrician, to come up with your due date or...a cut off date.” She cast a worried glance at Jordan as she scribbled on a prescription pad.

I knew exactly when the baby was conceived. Even being on the pill, we always used condoms too. Except for that one time.

I could probably narrow the conception down to a fifteen minute window. The night before I left the U.S. and my world shifted on its axis.

My world was shifting again.

“I’d appreciate it if you forgot you ever met me,” I addressed Thea, although Jordan would probably benefit from that advice too.

He just watched me stuff the bills into my jeans pocket.

Even knowing I’d planned to leave him, I found that his lack of protest burned a hole through my gut. Or maybe that was just the acid churning in my stomach.

Usually by this time of night I could keep stuff down, but it had been a hell of a day.

“And forget about the capture, prison, escape thing.” I couldn’t believe I’d been so off-balance I’d revealed that information.

Jordan said, “Thea, can we borrow your bedroom?”

“Uh, sure.

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