Gone.
I felt my eyes well up, and I don’t know why.I never expected anything from him.Perhaps it was coolness coming from him in waves.
“I don’t—”
“I’m not going to marry you.I’m not giving you a child.I don’t know what it is you wanted, but I can tell you, my wealth is locked up so tight even the government can’t touch it.”
I blanched.
Why was he saying that?
“Certainly not any offspring.”Zander added.
As the dots begin to connect, I realized my mouth had parted.Zander thought I’d tried to get pregnant with his child?
He came to me!
This stupid, stupid man.
Maybe all of them are stupid?After all, I’ve never met one, my father included, who truly cared for me.
How can this be the same man who leaped to his feet and roared at my powerful, cruel husband just a few minutes ago?Zander had been protecting me moments earlier, and now he was accusing me of the most disgusting thing.
One I’m incapable of doing.
Zander doesn’t trust me, and by the sounds of it he doesn’t trust any woman.
Should I tell him I want another attorney?
“Do the pregnancy test.”Zander ran a hand through his hair.
“It’s too soon and...I won’t be.I know you don’t trust me, but...”
But what?The only thing I could say beyond that was the truth, and given he hated me, I wasn’t willing to do that.I don’t need a test, I know there’s no child.
“If you’re pregnant with my child, I have a right to know, Courtney,” Zander insists, and I snap.
“Fine.But maybe you should’ve used a condom!”I stride to the door.“How about not treating me like it’s allmyfault.I’m divorcing a man who was physically violent and hurt me, so forgive me if I was overly stressed and forgot.”
It’s true, I did.
Had I remembered, Iwouldhave taken it, regardless of how sure I am about my infertility.I would have done it so that this conversation never needed to take place.
“That argument would be more believable if I wasn’t the second man you’d fucked since leaving your husband.”
I felt the blood drain from my face, my mouth falling open.
“Shit,” Zander cursed as I turned and ran out the door.“Courtney, wait.”I raced to the elevator and punched the button.“Courtney,” he hissed from behind me.
The doors pinged open, and I stepped in, turning to take in my ruggedly handsome lawyer.
“I will take you up on your offer.Get me a new attorney.”
The doors closed, and my eyes filled with tears.
They haven’t stopped leaking since.
Damn both of them.
