CHAPTER 49
By the time Calico Lady brings us in some tea, I’ve spilled out the entire story. How Jake and I conceived a baby out of wedlock. Grandma Lucy doesn’t look too shocked at that part. I didn’t leave out any of the details about the fight that led me to Spokane, and I told her exactly what happened there.
The only thing I don’t mention is the dream. The dream where she appeared to me and prayed over the child I was about to abort. I just explained that I got to the women’s clinic and changed my mind in the exam room, and that was all.
And over tea, I tell her the part that terrifies me the most. “I think that maybe if I hadn’t had them put that stuff in me to get me ready for the abortion, she wouldn’t have gotten sick.”
“What makes you say that?” Grandma Lucy isn’t smiling any
