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her to know, he would have told her himself, right? Since he hadn’t…maybe that meant something.
    “Go on, child,” Virginia said. “My daughter hired you to be a surrogate, and…”
    “The doctor implanted embryos from Aurora’s eggs and Nicolas’ sperm ten days before she died.”
    The color washed out of Virginia’s face. She stared at me as though she expected my head to explode or something. After a minute, I couldn’t meet her gaze any longer. I dropped my eyes to my belly, tears beginning to well in my throat.
    “The baby you’re carrying belongs to my Aurora?”
    “Twins.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “I’m carrying twins,” I said, after clearing my throat twice.
    “Shit,” Daniel said.
    Virginia shook her head. “I’m supposed to believe you’re pregnant with twins, and they’re biologically my daughter’s babies?”
    “Yes.”
    She shook her head again, the movement almost like the comforting rock some small children engage in when they are deeply upset. Then, she stood and charged toward me. I thought she was going to give me a hug or touch my belly. Instead, she grabbed my arm hard enough that I would find bruises later that night and dragged me out of the chair I was sitting in.
    “Get out of my house!”
    She started to pull me toward the door from which I’d come, her grip so much stronger than I would have imagined. I tried to pull away, but I was at an odd angle and would have fallen if I did. Daniel came around the table and moved up behind Virginia, blocking her path.
    “Get out of the way, Daniel!”
    “You need to calm down, Virginia. Can’t you see you’re frightening the girl?”
    “She’s a lying bitch! I’d be surprised if she’s even pregnant.”
    I didn’t know what to do. I was shaking, and I just wanted to get out of there. This was obviously not what I’d expected to happen when I came over here today. I just wanted her to drop her crusade against Nicolas. I hadn’t imagined she wouldn’t believe me.
    Daniel set his hands on her shoulders and whispered something I couldn’t hear against her ear. After a minute, Virginia let go of me, glaring at me as she waved her hands and walked away.
    “You okay?” Daniel asked, lifting the arm that was still in the brace even three weeks later. “She didn’t hurt you?”
    “I’m fine.” I pulled away from him and walked in the direction Virginia was trying to drag me, anxious to get out of that house before she came back.
    “You have to understand, Aurora was her only child. She’s devastated by her loss.”
    “Yeah, well, I knew that. That’s why I came here.”
    “To do what?”
    “To convince her to let Nicolas alone. He’s struggling enough, trying to prepare for these babies and salvage his career.”
    “He should have thought of that before he flew to New York that night.”
    I spun on my heel and confronted him. “Just because he was there doesn’t mean he had anything to do with her death. She could have taken those pills herself.”
    “I know she did.”
    I stared at him. “You what?”
    “I know that Aurora died of an overdose. I know she was addicted, and she took too much that night, but she wouldn’t have taken it if Nicolas hadn’t shown up and argued with her.”
    “If you know he’s innocent—”
    “I didn’t say he was innocent. I said he didn’t drug her. There’s a difference.”
    “A huge difference.”
    Daniel looked at me, his green eyes piercing in the dim light of the hallway. “Aurora had her problems, but none of them were insurmountable until she met Nicolas.”
    “What did he do to her that drove her to drugs?”
    Daniel shrugged. “What does any star-crossed lover do to hurt his love? He loved her too much.”
    “And for that, he deserves to be prosecuted?”
    “Virginia needs to work out her grief in her own way. This thing…it will blow over.”
    “Not soon enough.”
    His eyes fell to my belly. “Those are really Aurora’s?”
    “Yes.”
    He stared at my