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“You sign the papers in what? Three days?”
“We’re not officially divorced until we go before the judge, and our lawyers can’t schedule that until we sign the papers. It’s not about our divorce, though, Jax. It’s who we’ve become in these last few years. You’ve been there since the very beginning of our relationship. You’ve seen our love. He used to make me smile and laugh. Everything about us used to be so easy. We just worked well together. I don’t understand where things took a turn for us.”
I averted my eyes.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“Oh, come on, don’t give me that. Tell me.”
“I don’t want to bring up the past. It’s pointless.”
“I want to know what you’re thinking. Please tell me.”
Jax deeply sighed. “Listen, I don’t know the first thing about how to make a relationship work, let alone a marriage. I could be completely off base here, but one of my teammates recently got a divorce from his wife too.”
“And?”
“Kinley, don’t make me say it.”
“Jax…”
“Fine, but just remember you made me say it.”
“Jesus, what?”
“They couldn’t have a baby.”
I grimaced.
“See? What did I tell you? This is why I didn’t want to mention it.”
I had to know. “How long did they try for?”
“Years, like you guys. Except she did all the fertility treatments, and he said it made their marriage worse. She was in the worst moods, and they had scheduled sex, blaming each other every month the test came back negative. Kinley, they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to conceive and, in the end, all it did was ruin their marriage.”
“So what are you trying to say? It’s the same for us?”
“I’m not saying shit. You’re talking to a guy who’s never even had a girlfriend. I’m the last person you need to be asking advice from.”
“I think he blames me. Actually, I know he does.”
I didn’t have to express the words. Jax knew what I was referring to.
“Kinley, you didn’t know what was going to happen that night.”
“How could I not? You did. Christian did. I didn’t listen to either of you, and look what happened.”
He shrugged. “We all make mistakes.”
“I should have listened. If I had, we wouldn’t be getting a divorce right now.”
“You don’t know that.”
“You just said that your teammate—”
“I know what I said, but what the fuck do I know? I don’t go past the first date.”
