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He closes his eyes, seemingly asleep since his body doesn’t move a muscle until he tears me into shreds with his words.
“You really are fucking stupid, aren’t you?” He says, eyes still closed, and his head stays tilted to the side. “I can’t walk, and I’m never going to again. I can’t—I can’t fucking do this with you. I want you, and that baby, to get out of my room. Get out of my room, get out of this hospital, and get out of my life.”
“But—” I start.
His eyes open, and fury lays beneath the surface of his irises that are just begging to be released. “Go, Cara. Get out of here.” He looks like he wants to rage and tear this room apart, but he can’t.
And I think that’s the saddest part of all.
With tears streaming down my face, I drop my head between my shoulders and let out silent sobs as I feel Rose come up behind me and start pushing me out of the hospital room. The baby’s cart pops up beside me and I lay my hand on his stomach as we exit his room.
Then he obliterates my already beaten heart. “You’d be smart to go and ask Amanda and Colton to take the baby back. No point now.” He mumbles, and I wouldn’t have been able to even hear him if I didn’t know Jackson. Rose might not even have heard him.
But I did.
I clench Wesley’s baby blanket in my hand as I hold back a scream wanting to be set free.
“Looks like it’s just you and me, Wesley.” I whisper to him, wishing I could change things are already certain, and hoping for things that will never be.
