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“Lottie, I’m so sorry.”
“You keep saying that. I wish that you would just stop.”
She looks away from me, and I can see her blinking back tears as she looks over toward the busy highway.
This isn’t where I wanted to have this conversation. This isn’t how I wanted this conversation to go at all.
“I’ve always wanted you, Anson. I’ve always loved you, and I thought, I thought that we were finally on the same page, but then you left me. You just left in the middle of the night, and then you shut me out. How do you think it felt to wake up alone and then realize that you ghosted me?”
Tears sting my eyes, and I want to pull her against me when I see she’s crying. She looks so hurt and exhausted, and I hate myself. I hate what I’ve done to her, to us.
“You left me, and I needed you, but I can’t keep doing this anymore. I can’t keep pining after you anymore.
She starts to cry then, and I want to sink to my knees and beg her to forgive me, to give me a second chance. I’m afraid to let go of her, though. I know that she’ll try to run as soon as she can.
“Lottie, I know you don’t want to hear it, but I am sorry. I just freaked out. I never wanted to hurt you or Rhett, and after we slept together, I just kept thinking about how Rhett would take the news. I shouldn’t have left. I shouldn’t have, and if I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t have.”
“Wouldn’t have what? Slept with me or left?” She snaps, and I open my mouth to answer.
She rips her arm out of my grip and climbs into her car. I try to catch the door, but it slams in my face. She starts the car and rolls the window down, giving me a brittle smile.
“You’re going to really regret our night together after this,” she says, and I frown.
“I don’t regret it. I –”
“I’m pregnant.”
Those words hit me like a bomb, and my mouth drops open as I stare at her.
“Where’s your honor now?” She mumbles, and I reach for the car window, but she shifts into reverse and drives off.
I stand there, gaping after her until her car disappears from view.
What the hell am I supposed to do now?
I can’t keep going on like this. It was already wearing on me, and now that Lottie is pregnant, it’s time for me to make a choice.
And I choose Lottie.
I can’t take it anymore. I’d been walking away or watching this girl walk away from me for way too long.
I turn on my heel and rush back into the hospital. I know that visiting hours are almost over, but I’ll just have to convince them to make an exception in my case.
I take the elevator up to the third floor, slipping down the hallway when the nurses are distracted and heading into Rhett’s room.
“We need to talk,” I say once the door is closed behind me.
“About what’s going on between you and Lottie?” He guesses, and I nod.
I swallow hard. I’ve been so scared of messing this up and losing the only family that I have left, and I know that I need to play this right.
“Yeah. I’m in love with her, Rhett.”
“Dude, I know,” he says, shocking the hell out of me.
“You know?” I half shout, and he rolls his eyes.
“I think that everyone knows that you two love each other. Except maybe the two of you.”
