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      “And why is that?”

      Spacious or not, the room began to feel as if it closed in on her and there was this awful pain emanating from the center of her body. “Because I think my water just broke.”

      He was almost disappointed. You’d really think a reporter could do better than that. “Ms. Campbell, I wasn’t born yesterday or the day before that.”

      She was having trouble breathing. “I don’t think that when you were born…is going to be an issue, but this baby…wants to be born…today.”

      She almost had him believing that something was wrong. Except that he knew better. He looked at her icily. “How convenient.”

      “Not…really.” Convenient would be if she could get someone else to give birth to this baby for her.

      The hitch in her voice had him pausing. He was beginning to have his doubts at how accomplished an actress she actually was. “You’re serious.”

      She sucked air in, trying desperately to remember what it was that Lori had said. The last eight weeks of classes seemed to vanish from her brain as if they’d never taken up space there. “Yes.”

      “You came up here on your due date?” The woman really was crazy.

      Sherry wished that she’d listened to all those people who’d cautioned her about being careful, even though it went against her nature. “No…I came up here…almost a month away…from my due day.”