Chapter 183 - Dilemma

Noah

I sat there, on the cold bathroom floor, staring at the test. The seconds felt like hours as I waited for the result to appear. My heart was thudding so loudly it drowned out everything else. Slowly, tantalizingly, two lines materialized.

Two lines.

Pregnant.

My hand dropped limply to my side. The test slipped from my fingers and clattered to the tiled floor. This couldn’t be real. It couldn’t be happening. But there it was, clear as day. No denying it now.

I reached for another test, and then another, frantically hoping that maybe it had been a mistake, a false positive. Anything but the truth staring back at me. But they were all the same—each confirming what I was too terrified to accept.

“Oh God, oh God, oh God,” I whispered, my voice barely audible as my breathing quickened. The walls of the bathroom felt like they were closing in on me. My chest was tightening with the weight of this new reality.

I tried to steady my breath. But panic continued to rise, threatening to pull m