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“So, was it all a lie?”
“What?”
“Was it all a lie? The ‘I can’t get pregnant’ part. Was it all a lie?”
“What? No…”
“‘Cause it seems to me that it might have been.”
She let out a cry. “No, Asher, I wasn’t lying,” she said, standing up and taking a step toward me.
“Don’t come near me,” I spat as I listened to her sobs.
Bella stopped in her tracks, tears streaming down her face.
“Why didn’t you just tell me?”
She looked at me, shifted from one foot to the other. “Because you told me you didn’t want kids, that you hated them. Which honestly makes zero sense to me when you are a pediatrician.”
“Whoa, who said I was a pediatrician? This is my office. Doctor Love is my employee. I’m an OB/GYN, Bella. What reason would there be for me to be here if I were a pediatrician?”
Bella shrugged. “I don’t know. You could work with Doctor Love.”
I ignored that statement. “Oh, and I don’t hate kids.”
“Then why don’t you want them?”
I ran my hand over my face. “I never said I never wanted them. I said I didn’t want them with the woman in my previous relationship. There were many, many things wrong with that entire situation. For starters, she constantly lied to me. Lied about little things and then about bigger things when the truth would have been sufficient. I can’t even begin to tell you how many things were wrong with that relationship, and there appears to be just as many things wrong with this one.”
“Asher…I…”
“You what? Not being able to get pregnant is what you lied about. Then you failed to tell me you were. How do I know anything that has gone on between us and said during our time together hasn’t been one big lie?”
Bella stood there, tears rolling down her cheeks as she listened. Soon, loud, guttural sobs fell from her.
“Yeah, that’s exactly it. I don’t know what the truth is any more than you do.”
“Asher, none of it was a lie,” she cried.
“Yeah, whatever you say,” I said, moving toward the door.
“It’s not like you were completely honest with me either,” Bella said.
“What do you mean by that?”
“You never told me you were an OB/GYN. You also never told me you were opening a practice right here in the hospital, either.”
“No, I didn’t. You are correct. However, I didn’t really think that my specialty really mattered all that much. It wasn’t like I would not tell you either. When I wanted to tell you about this office, your mother got sick. You had to leave, but I did eventually tell you. Perhaps not when I should have, but I told you. If you wanted to know my specialty, all you needed to do was ask. It’s not a state secret.”
“You’re no different from me.”
Anger flooded through me. She was trying to place me on the same horse she was on. There was no way she was going to do that to me. I grabbed the handle of the door and pulled it open, ready to walk out and close the door on this part of my life. It was going to kill me to do it, but I’d do it.
“Asher… please wait…”
I stopped. My heart was racing when I turned around to face her. “Bella, I loved you. I allowed myself to open my heart once again, and as stupid as it was, I fell in love with you. Everything we had, all of this has been shot to hell now, don’t you think?”
“No, we can work through this,” she cried.
