Chapter One
The Positive Test
“My ten-year-old daughter’s pregnancy test came back positive. When her biological father arrived at the hospital, he pointed at my husband and said, ‘Arrest him.’”
Two hours earlier, Sophie had been sitting between Daniel and me in the emergency room, swinging her sneakered feet beneath the chair.
She looked too small for the adult blood pressure cuff wrapped around her arm.
For six weeks, she had complained of headaches. At first, they came after school. Then they began waking her before dawn. That Monday morning, she vomited during math class and walked into a row of lockers on her way to the nurse’s office.
Her pediatrician told us to take her to the hospital.
“She’s also been developing early,” I told Dr. Lena Ortiz. “She needed her first training bra before most of her friends. I thought she just took after me.”
