guarantee. Your pregnancy stress. Work. Everything.”
“By keeping me uninformed?”
“By carrying it myself.”
“That isn’t the same thing as protecting me.”
“I understand that now.”
“Do you?”
For once, he didn’t rush to defend himself.
“I’m not sure,” he admitted.
That surprised me.
Maybe because it felt completely honest.
I closed the folder.
“Is there anything else?”
He hesitated.
Too long.
My stomach tightened.
“Rowan.”
“There’s one thing.”
He rubbed both hands over his face.
“My mother didn’t ask me to stay at the birthday dinner because she cared
