The Prayer Cord That Broke Us

Summary

Everyone in Manhattan society knows Grant Tyler adores me. The icy aristocrat makes a grueling annual pilgrimage to a frozen Himalayan peak just to pray for my health. I thought I was the luckiest woman alive.

Then I saw Stella’s video. My best friend stood on a snowy trail, giggling about a five-year-old hike where she and her lover got carried away. A man’s hand reached in, adjusting her scarf with practiced tenderness. On his wrist was the crimson prayer cord I had braided for Grant with my own hands.

Blood turned to ice in my heated living room. Moments later, my doctor walked in. She told me I was two months pregnant. Tears already streaming, I looked up dazed. Please, I choked out, help me schedule an abortion immediately.