Before the Baby Comes

1.

I chased Noah Vance for ten years.

From high school to college, I played the part of the devoted girl in a one-sided love story until I just got tired of it.

So, I turned around and married Julian Sterling, the man who had quietly waited in the shadows for me for five years.

The week before my due date, Julian vanished.

No calls, no texts. He just disappeared into thin air.

I dragged my heavily pregnant body all over the city, ignoring my doctor’s orders to stay put. I searched for him