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50 pages 1 hour read

Danielle Valentine

Delicate Condition

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Part 3, Chapter 9-Interlude 4Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 3: “Your Baby Is as Big as a Pear” - Part 4: “You Might Start to Feel Your Baby Kick”

Part 3, Chapter 9 Summary

Two months later, Anna and Dex are staying at Talia’s unused house in Southampton. While Anna is being driven back from a yoga class by Kamal, the bodyguard that she and Dex have hired, she begins to have debilitating pain. She tries to call Siobhan, but a woman whose voice she doesn’t recognize answers. The pain worsens, and Anna sees blood between her legs.

Part 3, Chapter 10 Summary

Dex meets Anna at the hospital, where Anna receives an ultrasound from a technician named Meg. After the ultrasound, Meg leaves to find a doctor. Anna, feeling like she might defecate, runs to the restroom and has a miscarriage.

Part 3, Chapter 11 Summary

Anna wakes to find herself back in the hospital bed, attended by Dex and a doctor, Dr. Crawford. Dr. Crawford confirms that Anna had a miscarriage. When Dr. Crawford mentions that Anna hasn’t recently had an ultrasound, and Anna and then Dex contradict him, they learn that there is no hospital technician named Meg. Anna, feeling violated and certain that Meg must be connected to her cyberstalker, returns home with Dex. Anna says that she’ll want to start IVF again soon, but Dex rejects this idea, arguing that they should find out the truth behind Meg first.

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