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"I was fine."
"No, you were not."
She sighs. "I didn't think you wanted a blow-by-blow of my fatigue, lower back pain and swollen ankles."
"You were wrong."
"Fine. I'll make sure and tell you every time I have to throw up and how often I have to pee and all the rest of it with the next pregnancy."
Does she think that bothers me? "Good."
"We'll see how good you think it is when it's happening."
"Bring it."
"You can be ridiculously competitive."
"It is not competitive to want to be made aware when my wife is finding the side effects from pregnancy difficult to navigate."
"I never said they were hard to deal with, just hard on my body."
"Noted."
"I don't want something like this morning happening again, Raff." And we are back to what caused her to come pounding on my office door.
"Tell me about the appointment."
"Let's see, I arrived at the clinic believing I was going to see a doctor involved with heart research, but I was shown into an exam room and told to change into a gown. Do you have any idea how humiliating it was to realize you'd made an appointment with a doctor for me without talking to me about it?"
"It is my job to take care of you."
"Your idea of taking care of me is telling one of your men to do it."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"You abandoned me on our honeymoon and left guards to watch over me."
I barely knew my wife when we married. I assumed it would make little difference to her enjoyment of Paris, if I was there, or not. "You know I had to leave."
"When I am sick, you move into a guest room and the staff takes care of me," she says as if I have not spoken.
"I check in on you nightly." But I keep my distance and do it from the doorway because I cannot get sick.
No weakness is tolerated in an underboss. Not even the flu. The few times I have been ill in my life, I have hidden it and soldiered on.
Just as my father expected me to.
"What about your detached version of taking care of me would make me believe you want the nitty gritty details of my life?"
"Going on birth control is hardly a tiny detail. You should have discussed it with me." Damn it. I boxed myself into a corner with that one.
"You mean likeyoushould have talked tomeabout visiting a fertility clinic?" she asks with sugary sweetness.
"In future, I will discuss it with you before making doctor's appointments for you."
"How about you discuss any medical concerns you may have in regard tomybody with me andIwill make whatever medical appointmentsIdeem necessary."
"Agreed."
