![]() ![]() Caroline had gone away with Richard for a long weekend. She had to get out of the flat being on her own was driving her crazy. How come you didn’t pick on them? Oh God please let my period come!’ she prayed silently, hopefully. Colette and Brian have been doing it for over a year every night of the week. ![]() Why should it happen to me? God Almighty I only did it once and I didn’t mean to. ‘It’s not fair, I don’t want to be pregnant. Getting out of bed she paced the floor of her bedroom. Devlin inspected her knickers they were as pure and virginal as the driven snow and frustration rose in her. She waited a moment, as if expecting her period to appear miraculously maybe it had come in the night. Holy-Mary-Mother-of-God-pray-to-Jesus-for-me,’ she babbled, deriving some comfort from the prayer of her childhood to which she now turned only in moments of deep distress. ‘Oh Jesus God please don’t let me be pregnant. Maggie Ryan got pregnant on the pill,’ a little voice in her mind whispered maliciously. ![]() But she was on the pill, it was impossible to get pregnant on the pill. No doctor had confirmed it yet but she knew, just as thousands before her had known and thousands after her would instinctively know that their bodies were no longer theirs alone, their wombs no longer just parts of their anatomies but vibrant living things that for nine months would dictate to and rule over the host body.ĭevlin felt an awful fear deep in the pit of her stomach. ![]()
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