One Last Chance

"What?" Stella's shocked gasp crackled through the phone speaker.

Coralie pressed her fingers against her forehead. "It's only been four weeks since I found out."

A heavy silence stretched across the line.

Coralie lowered her hand, resting her palm gently over her flat abdomen. She stared out the window into the dark night. "I was planning to tell him tonight. I wanted to give him the news as a