Before There Was a Baby

Caroline hasn't cried since she was fourteen, but standing in a club on the night before her twin brother's funeral, grief finally cracks the armor she's spent a decade building. She lets a stranger take her to his hotel room. In the morning, he recites his rules: no attachments, no expectations, no second meetings. She accepts the terms and plans to forget him by the evening.
They part as strangers, exactly as intended.
Six weeks later, Caroline stares at a positive pregnancy test in a restaurant bathroom, her decision already made. She walks out to meet the man her mother has sold her to, only to find herself looking into the eyes of the stranger she was never supposed to see again.