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Things felt normal again.
Except for one thing…the big hole in my heart.
It got better, but not by much.
I replayed our last conversation over and over and wished it had had a different outcome. I wished I were a different man so I could be with her. I wished she were a different woman, a woman who didn’t want a family.
But none of those wishes were reality.
I had my guys watch her apartment again, waiting for the moment she started to see someone else. I hadn’t been with anyone since our first breakup, and I continued to hold out just in case anything changed. I guessed there was a part of me that still hoped that it wasn’t over…that she would still be mine.
But once a guy slept over, I knew that would be my cue to move on.
I was in my apartment when one of the guys called. They never called because there was nothing to report. She just went to work then went home, alone. So that meant there had been a change in her behavior.
I already knew what he was going to say, but I picked up the phone anyway. “Yeah?”
“Laura has been getting a lot of deliveries.”
My eyebrows rose at the odd update. “You called to tell me she’s getting shit delivered from Amazon?”
“It’s big stuff. Furniture.”
Furniture? “What kind of furniture?”
He fumbled in the background, searching through photos. “Crib. Changing table. Rocking chair.”
I almost dropped the phone.
“Sir?”
I hung up.
My doctor, Maurice, pulled up the records then slid the laptop across the table toward me. “She had her first appointment with the obstetrician last week. According to the lab reports, she’s about two and a half months along.”
Nearly three months.
She was almost done with the first trimester.
How long had she known?
“What’s the date on this lab report?”
“About six weeks.”
She’d known when she killed her father. Had known two weeks before that. Carried this secret alone and never told me.
Benton opened his front door. “What the fuck are you doing here?”
“I need to talk to you.”
“Then call.”
“I did. You didn’t answer.”
“Because I’m busy—”
“I need to talk to you. It’s important.”
