Against the Odds (COLLISION #4) by Kristen Granata EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kristen Granata
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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THEPRESENT
Carla What do you want?
To anyone else, it would’ve been an easy enough question
to answer. People state what they want all the time. They
voice it when ordering food; when buying a home; when
choosing which college to attend. There are simple choices,
like what to wear when getting dressed. There are more
serious choices, like cremation versus casket. Telling people
what we want is a necessary part of life. It’s how we
communicate.
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I’d always considered myself someone who knows what
she wants.
What do you want for dinner? Tacos.
Where do you want to go to college? Florida State.
How many kids do you want to have? Two.
Will you marry me? Yes.
I’d always communicated what I wanted and I’d always
gotten it. Life was simple. Life was good. I was happy.
Two parallel lines on a pregnancy test changed
everything.
Those lines shouldn’t have changed a thing though. Did
they throw me a curve ball? Of course. Did they make things
a little more challenging? Absolutely. Should they have
caused my fiancé to break up with me and throw away our
future together? I didn’t think so.
Joe and I were high school sweethearts. For four years, we
planned what our lives would be like once we graduated.
We’d move in together, attend the same college, and get
engaged. Then we’d get married and have kids. I had it all
written down on a list tacked to the corkboard in our
bedroom. A list we’d made together.
After graduation, we moved into an off-campus
apartment together and Joe asked me to marry him.
Everything was going according to plan. Check, check, check.
Our ducks waddled in a row. Getting pregnant mixed up the
order of things, but it was still something we’d wanted.
Until we didn’t want the same things anymore.
My nana always said,
“You can never truly know
someone.” You think you do. You finish his sentences and
anticipate his moves, like your favorite movie you’ve
watched over and over. Until one day, you’re standing in
front of him, looking at him like he’s a stranger. The words
flowing from his mouth sound foreign to your ears, a
language you can’t seem to decipher no matter how hard you
try. The warmth from his touch is no longer a comfort, but
sends you crawling out of your skin.
“I want you to get an abortion.” He said it as easily as if
he’d ordered a drink at the bar. I’ll have a rum and coke, and
the lady will have an abortion.
He told me to choose. It was him or the baby. Making that
choice was the hardest decision I’d ever made, but it wasn’t
because I didn’t know what I wanted. I knew, even then.
I chose to keep the baby.
Joe broke up with me, so I had to move back home with
my parents. As devastated as I was, I knew I had to be strong
for the tiny human growing in my belly.
I stopped being strong when I woke up nine weeks later to
blood-stained sheets.
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