I cannot believe what I just heard. I cannot believe that Mom was the reason why Clifford was suddenly deployed to an overseas mission. How can she do that? How the hell did she pull the strings?! That’s the f*****g Airforce for Pete’s sake! How can she have a f*****g control over that place?! Mom stood up, wide eyes, obviously shocked that I heard her secret conversation with someone. “Julia,” she called me. But I was already fuming mad! I just got back from the OB, extremely happy that I am having a child with the man I love but now, I hear this?! It’s f*****g ridiculous! “Did I hear it right?” I asked her with a warning tone. I am still sitting in the wheelchair. I looked at the nurse with me and asked him to go out of the room. I need to talk to my mother. I need to know the truth