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“Davit, I don’t need a lecture,” I said.
“What happened?” he said, ignoring my unspoken plea.
“I saw somebody I thought I knew. Turns out I was wrong. Simple,” I said.
“And who would you know in Zürich?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” I said.
“So you saw someone you thought you knew, but you don’t know who it was,” he said.
“Well, when you say it like that, it sounds ridiculous,” I whispered with a chuckle.
He didn’t laugh.
Didn’t even crack a smile.
“Davit—”
“Amethyst, I have tried to be accommodating,” he said.
I shifted, narrowed my eyes at him. “Do I hear a threat in there?”
“Of course not. You would know if I were to threaten you. I’d be very direct about it,” he said.
I didn’t argue, figured that I didn’t have anything useful to say.
He stared at me, his dark eyes glittering with anger.
And in the next breath, they softened.
“I know it can be stifling. And I’m trying to avoid that. But…”
He trailed off, narrowed his own eyes, practically pleading.
“I know,” I said.
My anger had dissipated, and in its place was a little bit of regret.
“Do you?” he asked.
There was something in his voice, an insistence that demanded I look at him.
When I did, there was a seriousness, a certainty in his expression.
“Do you know how I would feel if anything happened to you or the baby?” he said.
He hadn’t told me, not in so many words, but he didn’t need to.
Because I knew what it would do to me if something happened to him or the baby. Knew it was the same for him.
“I’m sorry,” I said.
Not that I’d followed that instinct, though. In the time after, no longer in the heat of the moment, I could see how foolish it was. But, the thought of hurting him, that was something I did regret.
“I know. But please, I need you to take care of yourself,” he said.
“I will,” I responded.
