Lion Head Mesa she's imperfect, but she tries

Tavina had helped her once before. Maegi knew the woman would help her again.

I. . . The words stuck in her throat. She swallowed the lump and tried again. I'm pregnant. And I don't want to be.

"It's not your choice."

A shifting, then, in her belly.

There must be something I can take, to. . . 

Coward. She couldn't even say it. She was a fucking coward.

"You always have been, dear."