Chapter 148

I don't know if Penelope says this with some malicious intonation, but it makes no difference. No one knows what to say in the silence that follows, but nothing takes away our words as quickly as the moment when Mikaela looks up at Penelope's and something permeates between their eye contact.

Because after that, without saying anything, Mikaela is already moving. She stands between Colton and Penelope, and in an instant her lips are touching those of her platonic and secret passion."It's great to have all of you here tonight," I say when I raise a glass of juice. "It's not a Thanksgiving day, but it's a meeting with the most important people in my life, and the last time I'll see you for a while.”

My pregnancy will not reach the thirty-seventh week, like the pregnancy of a single baby, and that is why I had the choice to prepare for hospitalization in the maternity hospital with almost eight months of gestation. Recognizing this left me panicked at first, but I already k