Broken Beauty (9 page)

I still can’t understand the concept of pregnancy. It’s too foreign to me. Just like being raped, it doesn’t make sense
. But I do understand that Dadd
y lied to me and expects me to live with
his
decisions.
I turn and walk out of his office. I expected … wanted a confrontation. But he’d have to care about me first to care about what I’m going through. Chris says something as I pass the study. I don’t hear it. I go to my room, curl up in my closet and pray to wake up from this nightmare.

Broken Beauty Novellas

Broken Beauty (Sep/Oct)

Broken World (Nov/Dec)

Author Note: “Broken Beauty” is the first of six novellas chronicling Mia’s struggles and triumphs. The novellas will be released over the course of a year, tentatively every two months.