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“Why?! Why?!” I yelled, talking to myself. Repeating it over and over, allowing it to sink into my bones.
Through my chaos, I found the pregnancy test again. There in front of my eyes was the truth I couldn’t escape. Not when it was blatantly spelled out for me in big, bold letters. I don’t know how much time flew by, everything just sort of stood still like it was the middle of the night and not bright and early with the start of a new day.
I wanted to love him.
Be with him.
Truly be his wife.
But I couldn’t forgive him.
Not until he told me the truth for the first time.
I was trying to be patient, letting him confess when he was ready to, but there was no delaying the inevitable anymore. I needed to hear, the truth and I needed to hear it right now.
Because at the end of the day we couldn’t move forward.
When the past kept staring us in the fucking face.
Chapter Twenty-Four
—Tristian—
I walked into to our bungalow, suddenly panicked by the sight before me. It looked like someone had broken in.
“Belle!” I hollered. My heart was in my throat as I rushed around the room trying to find her. “Kitten! Where are you?”
In the corner of the kitchen, I found her sitting on the floor with her back against the wall and a pregnancy test in her hand. Looking back and forth between her and the test, I waited for her to say something, anything.
“Did you take it?”
She nodded.
“I thought we were going to do it together?”
“You took too long, but that’s what you’re good at.”
I spewed, “Excuse me?”
“You heard me.”
“You couldn’t have waited an hour?”
“I’ve waited twenty years. What’s another hour, right?”
I narrowed my eyes at her. “What’s it say?”
She didn’t reply. Instead, she grabbed the bottle of bourbon I’d bought at the liquor store and chugged it down.
Seeing the aftermath of her meltdown, I crouched in front of her, sitting on the balls of my feet. “Kitten, we have our whole lives to try for a baby.”
“I’m thirty-seven. That’s not exactly young to try for a baby.”
“Bel—”
“Why are you pretending like you’re not disappointed?”
She handed me the test.
