"Does that hurt? That pain is nothing. Not even a fraction of what I feel right now." His voice cracked. "I knew you wanted children. I told you we could adopt."
"So why? Why did you have to hurt me like this?"
Kieran had always held me like something precious. He'd never once looked at me with an expression this terrifying.
Tears streamed down my face as I tried to pull him back to reason.
"Kieran, you know me. I'm home all day, every day. I barely even leave the house."
"You know my entire social circle. My whole life revolves around you and no one else. How could there possibly be another man?"
Something in his expression wavered. He seemed to be turning it over in his mind.
Then a woman's voice cut in from the doorway.
"Is that so?"
"Then who's this walking into a hotel with a man?"
Kieran and I both looked up at the same time.
It was Paula James, his childhood friend.
She hurled a stack of photographs at my feet, her voice sharp and accusing.
"I was at that hotel two days ago for a business meeting, and I saw you going in with some man. I didn't know how to tell Kieran. I agonized over it for two days before finally coming here today."
"And now it turns out you're pregnant?"