He told her he needed time away.
He said he couldn’t spend the rest of his life wondering whether he had given up fatherhood simply because he had been too afraid to leave.
Elena sat silently with the positive test still inside her bag.
She made a decision.
She wanted to know whether Alex would choose her before he knew she was pregnant.
He didn’t.
Four days later, he filed for divorce.
Now, almost six years later, Alex sat frozen in front of his television watching four laughing five-year-olds beside
