Then—relief.

“A dog,” she breathed. “It’s just a dog.”

But what truly haunted her wasn’t the night, the rain, or even the stray—it was the betrayal that had brought her here.

Lena met Travis five years ago, just after college. He was charming, ambitious, and she had fallen hard. Their whirlwind romance turned into marriage, and for a while, it seemed perfect. But everything changed the day she told him she was pregnant.

“What? Now? I just got my company off the ground. This is terrible timing,” Travis said, his smile vanishing as he stared at the test strip in her hand.