My Baby Has No Last Name

A curvy woman with warm brown skin and dark curly hair walks into a dim hotel bar at night, jaw scabbed, chin up.

Jolene walked into the hotel bar three blocks from the river with bleach still under her nails and her father's new keys in her pocket.

Her jaw had a scab on it and her apron was gone, and she did not feel like a woman who had spent two years crying.

My Baby Has No Last Name

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At my husband's campaign breakfast, Dean thanked his girlfriend for giving him a family and told the whole room I was the problem. I changed the locks before the coffee went cold. Then a man at the hotel bar made me laugh until I forgot my own name. He gave me one night and only a first name. I told myself that was enough. Six weeks later, I am pregnant. The doctors always said this could not happen, so I cry in my shop bathroom and thank no one but the ceiling. Now Dean is trying to drag me back under his thumb. My kind new doctor treats me like glass, and his wedding ring makes me feel things I should not. The stranger's voice is still in my head, but I do not know where he is. How do I protect this baby and keep my pride? And how do I choose between the gentle man who is already taken and the stranger my body remembers?