Intersect (Parallel, #2)

by Elizabeth O'Roark

There’s so much he doesn’t know.

can’t bear the idea of telling him we’re having a baby and tearing it all away from him, but I’m worried that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

All those firsts will go to someone who comes after me.

“It’s not about us,” I gasp, sitting up. “It’s about the baby. In that dream I always have of us in the hospital? We’re there because I’m delivering, and that’s when she stops us. She doesn’t want us to have the baby.”

by people who treated what you could do like a gift instead of a curse.” My heart stumbles and falters. He’s wrong. I bury my head to his chest and try to ignore the thought. But it remains anyway, a tiny undercurrent of guilt I can never quite place.

There’s the

Ryan’s name. And in that dream about the hospital in London, my certainty I’d done something Nick wouldn’t forgive me for—it means something. At some point, in one of these live...

So I say if something you want scares the hell out of you, go for it. Because the other way isn’t working.”

“Well, my mother’s still alive and they never found your father’s mother after she disappeared,

so I assume that means they didn’t find a ring either.”

“She once told me if you go back a ways, it sometimes

takes all you’ve got. You’re so exhausted you have to recover before you can jump back. And if you stay someplace too long you weaken until you can’t get back.

Which means my grandfather and I have had this conversation before.

feels like whoever’s changing your life has stolen something from me. I should have taken you to Prom. I should have been your first kiss, your first everything, and I fucking hate that I wasn’t.” I sigh. I’ve tried not to let

It means the predictions are coming true. It means we have to hide this, or she’s going to take it all away again.