Page 132 of When a Soul Cries

Pinehaven disappearing behind her.

Crestmont.

Three weeks later, the positive pregnancy test.

When she reached that part, her eyes moved toward the hallway again.

“I thought my life was over,” she admitted.

I frowned.

“Then I had Halo.”

Her lips trembled into a sad smile.

“And somehow she became the reason it wasn’t.”

I leaned back against the couch and stared at her.

“Where’s her father?”

Sol’s entire body changed.

Her shoulders tightened.

The little bit of softness that had returned to her face disappeared, and her eyes dropped immediately to her hands.

I regretted the question almost as soon as I asked it.

“You don’t have to answer.”

“No.” She inhaled shakily, but when she tried to speak again, nothing came out.

I watched her fingers twist into the bottom of my shirt.

“Sol?”

Her eyes slowly lifted to mine.

There was something in them that made my stomach tighten before she even opened her mouth.

“Mack.”

I frowned.

“What?”

Her bottom lip started trembling.

“Mack is Halo’s father.”

For a second, I didn’t understand what she was telling me.

Then I did.

Every muscle in my body went still.

“The same Mack?”