Am pregnant

My body turned to stone as gears shifted in my head. I froze completely with one hand braced on the edge of the sink. My knuckles turned white from my impossible grip on the pale stone. "Maybe you should take one." Ricky insisted.  "No," I repeated absently, almost as if my conscience wasn't in my body anymore while my lips continued moving. "It's not possible." I murmured repeatedly.  He let out a baffled scoff, dropping his hand from my tense shoulder. "Yeah right. I've seen the way Aleksander looks at you. Tell me with one hundred percent certainty that it's impossible." He spoke. Half a second passed. I took a sniffled inhale, fighting back a tide of something rising within me— something inevitable. The first tear breached the corner of my eye, hugging my lashes and threatening to fall. "I'm on the pill. I've been on the pill for years. I've always been so careful." I murmured more to myself than Ricky. When I'd worked through the contracts, I'd had to be careful. Falling into bed