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He didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he looked out of the window again, and then turned his gaze back to me, his dark eyes completely unreadable.
“What? I was just going to let you go, forget you existed? Leave you out there?”
“You could have. A lot of people would have.”
“But not me,” he said.
“How did you explain me leaving?”
“Another question. Which means I get one of my own.”
“As you said, that’s the deal. But don’t think I haven’t noticed you didn’t answer mine.”
“I sent an email from your computer. Told everyone that you were heartbroken about Keenan’s death. That you were resigning and taking some time to gather yourself,” he said.
“And people bought that?”
“Amethyst, you know I can be very convincing,” he said.
I let out a little snort laugh. “It’s true. I can’t argue that point.”
“My turn,” he said.
I nodded, telling him to continue.
“Why did you keep the baby?” he asked.
There was no inflection in his voice, nothing at all to give away what he thought.
I knew the answer, had known it from the very second I had learned of the baby’s existence, not that I would tell him. “Why not? I’m more than capable of taking care of him.”
“That is a statement of fact, not an answer to my question,” he said.
“What? You want to know the reason I wanted to keep him? You think it’s because I wanted a connection to you?”
“I don’t think anything. I want to know your answer,” he said.
“Because…”
I’d been on the verge of speaking my thoughts, but held them back.
My emotions, my decisions, were none of his business.
He was still staring at me, practically compelling me to answer, but I still held my tongue.
“Fair is fair, Amethyst,” he chided.
“You mean taking me from my hotel room at gunpoint counts as fair in your world?”
“As fair as trying to keep me from my child is, so I consider us even.”
I scoffed. “You wouldn’t understand—”
He shook his head when I cut off short. “Don’t stop yourself. Say what you’re feeling. What you’re thinking.”
“You wouldn’t understand what it means to love someone without ever meeting them. And that’s what I feel for this baby. Even knowing that you’re a part of him, I love him. And I would do anything for him.”
I had spoken the truth, at least some of that, but he didn’t give any reaction. And when I answered his question, I hadn’t been entirely forthcoming.
