My Former Best Friend Invited Me To Her Baby Shower Until I Saw The DNA Results On My Counter

to hear that the baby was a Mercer miracle. The phrase sat in the room with the specific discomfort of something being said too emphatically, the way people emphasize things that are not entirely settled.

Across the room, near the bar, Alistair stood with his shoulders slightly hunched and a drink he was not really consuming. He was twenty-eight, softer-featured continue reading …