Chapter 178. Wait, Teyana

Teyana’s POV

Hours Earlier

After rushing out of the doctor’s office, I was standing in the parking lot like I’d forgotten how to exist outside those white walls.

My hands were shaking as I reached my car—the very one he had purchased for me for my 19th birthday, like my body was still trying to catch up with the truth my mind had just been handed.

I was pregnant. Still pregnant.

The nurse that attended to me at Vance’ hospital must have assumed the pills worked and didn’t bother to check my pregnancy status. That was why I was discharged the same day.

I slid into the driver’s seat but didn’t start the engine. Instead, I pulled out my phone. My thumb hovered over the screen longer than necessary, my breath uneven as I unlocked it. Jeremy’s name was back on my phone. I had unblocked him earlier.

I tapped his contact, and his name filled the screen. My chest ached, anticipation and anxiety wounding through me. Would he pick my cal