Chapter 115

Kai POV

I drove to three different pharmacies before finding one far enough from the city that no one would recognize us.

Nova sat in the passenger seat, silent and pale, staring out the window like she was watching her life pass by. Every few minutes, her hand would drift to her stomach, then drop like she’d been burned.

“Maybe it’s nothing,” I said for the fifth time. “Maybe Darren’s just spreading rumors to—”

“When was the last time you and Darren were intimate?” The question came out of nowhere, blunt and necessary.

Nova flinched. “Does it matter?”

“Yes. It matters a lot.”

She was quiet for a long time. Then, quietly: “Two weeks before the Grammy ceremony. We’d been fighting about the tour schedule. He initiated. I...” She trailed off. “I didn’t want to, but I was so tired of fighting about everything else that I just let it happen.”

My hands tightened on the steering wheel. Two weeks before the Grammy ceremony. Which meant