The Man I Loved Left Me After Asking Me To End My Pregnancy

than anyone. If she decided you didn’t need to carry it, she probably had reasons.”

“She took money from that woman.”

“To keep your children alive,” Lena said. “That is not a small distinction, Mara.”

I knew she was right. I had known it from the moment Serena read the words to me. And yet the knowing did not settle the feeling, because feelings do not continue reading …