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Mia tried her best to cushion the blow “Well,” she said, as they drove away fros than being adopted I mean, I was adopted, and look hoell I turned out” She sh for your et the impression she probably wouldn’t have approved of me anyway

“Right, yeah,” Ra at her Mia couldn’t help but wonder how much of his shock stemmed from the revelation that Rami had been adopted, and how much was due to the fact that his mother had rejected Mia Is it that bad to be adopted? Mia had never thought so; she didn’t even re curiosity about them—at least until she had nant

Now she was pregnant, and it should have been nothing but rest and relaxation and growing a baby from that point forward Instead, as they drove back to Ra he had given her, and wondered if his love for her would endure in the face of his mother’s ultimatum

She followed hi with the i that had happened “Do you want to watch TV?” she asked Ra of guilt at the realization that she had startled hihts

“I’ her a weak set soave her a brief kiss on the lips, letting his hand ainst her abdomen

“If you want to talk about anything—about what your aze He sain, his eyes tired and dull, and kissed her on the forehead before turning away

“I just need to clearinto the hallway that led to his office Mia sighed and sank down onto the couch, trying not to worry too much about the man she had come to love

She told herself that he would be all right within a few days; Rami had always seemed to be the more resilient of the two of theht that shechildren—while Rami had been confident all the while that it would eventually work out for thenant When we least expected it and weren’t even trying, it happened But hoping for the best didn’t seem to be an option in their current situation

Mia turned on the TV and pretended to watch it, all the while going over and over their predica one, the one who believed that everything would work out Yeah, but he doesn’t really have much of a choice when it comes to his parents’ approval, does he? Mia worried at her botto the look on Ra his child, and that he intended to marry her

Rami was a prince, and the fact that he was adopted somehow seeoing to co you—and keeping histhe decision to stay with you, and in doing so lose everything Mia wondered if Rami’s mother would let him keep or at least care for his own child Mia ell aware that the h to take care of herself and her mother, wouldn’t last the child’s lifetime

“Maybe I’ absent-mindedly from one channel to the next It didn’t really h she was in the right frame of mind to absorb as on the screen “Maybe it was just an initial reaction Maybe his et used to the idea, and eventually tell him that it’s okay” Mia shook her head at the sheer optiht eventually conated someone, but Mia didn’t think that the woman would ever be okay with her son—her adopted son, but her son nonetheless— a commoner who from a no-name family without wealth or connections

“If she wanted hied it herself,” Mia said to no one at all, knowing she sounded petulant and uncaring Raht as well have been acare of work Mia wished that she had so to occupy herself with other than TV Even her old job, where she had been underpaid and underappreciated, would have given her plenty to think about outside of her current crisis