𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬

chapter 29

TWENTY • NINE:
a secret uncovered
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"The secret was revealed, the moment of truth finally came out, and all she could feel was terror—dark, scary terror..."

ellie

It seemed as though she had had the exact same routine for the last week and a half. Every morning, Ellie would wake up feeling even worse than the day before. She would take a shower and get dressed, then she could go downstairs and make breakfast for everyone while trying to swallow down the urge to vomit. After she had eaten, while everyone was eating, she would casually say how she had to go to the washroom and would throw up what she managed to keep down for so long.

Ellie already knew what it meant; a week and a half ago, Blaze asked her if she considered getting Plan B after their time spent in bed. She told him how she had no need to be angry towards their mistake of forgetting to wear a condom and he took her to go into town and take it. She was almost completely certain that it would work (since it was a 95-percent chance of it actually working after unprotected sex).

However, she was beginning to think she was part of that tiny 5-percent. And her only concern was having to ask someone to drive her into town and get the scariest purchase of her life: a pregnancy test.

"You summoned me," Archer said with a grin, walking into the bedroom. When he saw her pacing back and forth, Archer groaned to himself. He was always the one consoling them. "You okay?"

"I need you to take me to the pharmacy in town," Ellie said, running a hand through her messy hair. "Now."

"Why? You need more Plan B?"

Ellie shook her head and turned her body to face him entirely. Archer looked over her stressed face, frowning. When she raised her eyebrows slightly, Archer's frown disappeared and his lips parted in slight shock.

"Wait," Archer said, his eyes growing, "you mean to tell me..."

Ellie nodded slowly, looking away. Archer was silent for a moment and Ellie waited for what he would do next... and then she felt his arms go around her tiny body. Ellie inhaled sharply, then rested her head on Archer's chest, closing her eyes when he began to rub her back slowly.

"Yeah, I'll take you now," Archer said, checking his watch. "Dimitri's with Blaze right now so I'll just tell him I'm taking you to get some groceries."

Ellie nodded her head slowly, walking out of the bedroom as slowly as possible. Eventually, Archer got sick of her obnoxiously slow speed and pulled her downstairs, chuckling at her whine of protest as they made their way to the driveway.

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"Have you pissed on it yet?" Archer complained from the other side of the bathroom door, impatiently waiting as Ellie stared at the pregnancy test. "It's been five minutes already—what the hell is taking you so long?"

Ellie whined. "I'm scared. What if I am pregnant and Blaze suddenly realizes he doesn't want to be with a whale halfway through the pregnancy?"

Archer snorted. "Then I would smack some sense into his stupid-ass. Come on, El. I want to see what it says."

Ellie sighed and got off of the toilet seat, washing her hands and grabbing the pregnancy test. She spared not one glance as she walked out, shoving it in Archer's hands and waiting impatiently to tell her what the results were.