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Safe.

Until it didn’t.

“So,” Raven said, leaning back in her chair and eyeing me over the rim of her coffee cup. “How you holding up with all this baby daddy drama?”

I laughed, shaking my head. “Don’t start.”

“I’m serious!” Raven grinned. “You gottwobaby daddies, Truth. That’s some reality TV shit.”

Saroya snorted. “Girl, hush.”

“I’m just saying!” Raven threw her hands up. “How many people you know got two fine-ass rich men fighting over themanda baby?”

“It’s not like that,” I said, but I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks.

Honor leaned forward, her expression more serious. “Howisit, then? Because from where we’re sitting, it looks messy as hell.”

I sighed and set my coffee cup down. “It’s been a lot. But I’m maintaining. I’m focused on protecting my baby and making sure I don’t get caught up in their family’s bullshit.”

The room went quiet.

Too quiet.

I looked up and found all three of my sisters staring at me with identical expressions of shock.

“What?” I asked.

“You just said ‘my baby,’” Saroya said slowly.

“So?”

“So,” Raven said, leaning forward, “you’re supposed to be asurrogate, Truth. That baby ain’t supposed to be yours.”

My stomach dropped.

I hadn’t even realized what I’d said.

“I just meant—” I started, but Honor cut me off.

“Nah. Don’t backtrack now. You said what you said.”

I opened my mouth to argue, to explain, but the words wouldn’t come.

Because they were right.

Ihadsaid “my baby.” Been saying it a lot lately.

And I’d meant it.

“Truth,” Saroya said gently, “are you getting attached to this baby?”

I looked down at my hands, my throat tight. “I don’t know. Maybe. I mean—it’s complicated.”

“It’s not complicated,” Raven said. “You’re either attached or you’re not.”

“I’m carrying this baby,” I said, my voice rising. “I’m the one dealing with the morning sickness, the exhaustion, and the fear. I’m the one whose body is changing. How am Inotsupposed to get attached?”

Honor reached across the table and squeezed my hand. “We get that, baby. We do. But you need to be real with yourself about what’s happening here.”