Connor trains his gaze on me. “We weren’t being as careful as we could have been.” He could have let me believe the entire ordeal was a fucking mistake. The honesty is nice, but I don’t thank him for it. Air strains again, an uncomfortable fucking tension. Connor continues, relieving some of it, “Daisy designed this entire scenario of Rose and her being pregnant at the same time under false pretenses.” He rotates to Daisy. “You want Rose pregnant too because you’re scared of hurting her if something catastrophic happens—if you die. You don’t want to cause your sister pain, so maybe this way,
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