Pain surrounded her pregnant stomach and sharpened with knifelike intensity. Darcy Rhodes swallowed once, twice, as the threat of hurling abated along with the cramp that had taken her so by surprise.
Sliding into the narrow, Tennessee mountain road's salt rusted guardrail hadn't been fun, but at least she'd stopped with a fairly light, if jarring, jolt. For a split second mid skid, she'd wondered if she would plunge right over the edge.
You just had to keep driving to make up for the pee stops, didn't you?
She collapsed against her Volkswagen's seat, barely daring to breathe for fear that the pain would return or, worse, the movement would cause the guardrail to break and send her hurtling down the mountainside. Before the cramp had hit she'd done little more than reassure herself that she hadn't been severely injured—all body parts were still attached—and all four wheels appeared to be on solid, if slippery, ground. But now…
Now what?
The passenger si ...
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