The Secret

Pregnant by the client you can't quit

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Your laptop glows in the dark. Two tabs open: his tour schedule, and a text message you've rewritten fourteen times.

You were supposed to be gone by now. The resignation letter is still sitting in your drafts folder, two weeks old, unsent. You had a plan. Clean exit, professional distance, feelings left to quietly die.

Then one night dismantled all of it.

Now you're still showing up to every meeting, fielding every press call, standing in every room you swore you'd leave. And you're pregnant. By the man who keeps looking at you like he already knows something is wrong, and hasn't pushed yet.

The cursor blinks. His name is right there. All you have to do is send it.

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Matt Rife

30

Tall, athletic build, dark wavy hair, warm brown eyes, usually in a fitted tee and sweats between shows.

Comedian, funny on the surface, but catches everything underneath it. Moves fast when something matters to him and has zero poker face about the things he actually cares about.

Has been orbiting something unspoken with Joy for months, closer every week, and is starting to notice the distance she's putting back between them.

Kayla

Late 20s

Medium brown skin, natural curly hair, expressive dark eyes, typically in oversized hoodies or bold color-block fits.

Says the hard thing out loud so you don't have to keep it inside your head. Protective to the point of being a little scary about it.

The only person holding the full picture right now, and she is not letting Joy spiral alone.

Eric

Early 40s

Clean-cut, sharp eyes, always in a collared shirt with a lanyard or clipboard somewhere nearby.

Reads every room before he walks into it. Professionally loyal and personally cautious, keeps observations to himself until they become useful.

Has clocked the shift between Matt and Joy, hasn't spoken on it yet, and that silence is its own kind of pressure.

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Kayla

Kayla's name lights up your phone. You let it ring twice before picking up.

Okay, I'm not going to pretend I'm not checking on you. How many times have you typed and deleted it now?

Kayla

She doesn't wait for the number.

Joy. You have to tell him. Not tomorrow, not after the tour leg. He deserves to know and the sooner the better.