Keya Kulkarni shares a captivating story with nail-biting twists and turns that will leave the reader shocked in the end.
Step 1: Be Irresponsible
Akira watched Sam from across the kitchen counter, her grip tightening around the small white pill bottle in her hand. Sam had already begun packing. It was infuriating, the casual way the suitcase was zipped up, as if it contained nothing more than clothes and toiletries, rather than years of shared life, whispered promises, and a future discarded like an old receipt.
“I just… I can’t do this anymore,” Sam had said two days ago, avoiding eye contact, voice thick with something Akira refused to call guilt. “I thought I wanted this, but I don’t.”
This. The word scraped against Akira’s ears like a dull knife. This was their family. The daughter Akira had carried, endured injections, and hormonal chaos for. Sam had held her hand through it all, watched the sonograms, painted the nursery in hues of soft lavender. And now? Now, Sam wanted out. As if parenthood was something one could simply return, like a wrong-sized pair of shoes.