Perfect Storm (The Exes #1) by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cheryl Douglas

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I’d finally hauled my lazy ass to the doctor’s office to get my prescription refilled, but of course he made me go through the annual checkup too. We were sitting at his desk after I’d redressed and he was reviewing my file.

“Hm, I see here you haven’t been taking the pill for the last month.” He looked up at me, his steel-framed glasses perched on the end of his nose. “Have you decided to use an alternative form of birth control instead?”

I stared at him before shaking my head as I reached into my purse. “I have been taking the pill,” I said, thrusting the packet I’d retrieved from Jace’s apartment at him. “See. I had an extra one left over.”

He frowned as he looked at his computer screen. “That can’t be right. You came to see me one year ago last month. On the tenth. Unless the pharmacy made a mistake?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know. All I know is I had the pills so I took them. I knew I had to come in and renew my prescription before I ran out, so here I am.”

The white-haired doctor flipped the plastic disc over and pushed his glasses back up on his nose. “Cory, these pills have expired. How long have you had them?”

My stomach dropped as I snatched them out of his hand. He was old. He’d probably misread the small print. They couldn’t be expired. I took them on the trip with us and they’d worked just fine. Maybe you weren’t ovulating then idiot, a little voice in my head chided.

Oh my God! He was right. They’d expired two years ago. “I… don’t know. They were shoved in the back of a drawer. I didn’t even think to look at the date. I wasn’t even sure I knew that birth control pills had an expiration date.”

“Do you and your partner use any other form of birth control?” he asked, gently. “Condoms, maybe?”

“No.” I shook my head, feeling nauseous. This could not be happening. Not now. Not after the talk I’d had with Jace last night. “Just the pill.”

“You started taking these a couple of days ago?” he asked, pulling out an old-fashioned desktop calendar only doctors seemed to favor.

“Yes.”

“Can you tell me when the first day of your last cycle was?”

My hands were shaking when I took the calendar from him and tried to remember. I was terrible at keeping track of shit like this, but I was able to pinpoint it. It was a Monday. Two weeks ago today. I remember because I thought cramps were a shitty way to start the week.

“Here,” I said, pointing at the big black number as I passed it back to him.

He nodded. “And have you had unprotected sex in the last seventy-two hours?”

Unprotected sex. Oh God. “I didn’t mean to,” I said, biting my lips as tears welled in my eyes. “I mean, I didn’t know the pills had expired.”

“Then you have had intercourse?” he asked gently.

I held up two shaky fingers and whispered, “Twice.

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