When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 70

Chapter 70

His

s drilled into mine, a deep concern veiling them, “Can’t it be for any other reason?”

“Like what?” I couldn’t deny I was fishing for something more.

His lips barely moved as he spoke, “I just want you to be well.”

“…Sounds like something you’d say at a family Thanksgiving dinner.”

A thought flickered through my mind, and before I knew it, a smile crept up, “Save it for Timothy’s birthday bash next month.”

Wishing me health. Wishing himself a lifetime of happiness with Margaret?

When the nurse came to draw my blood, I instinctively pulled back as she disinfected my arm, my body tensing up.

I was scared. I’d always been scared.

As a kid, it was always Dad who held me, with Mom gripping my other hand, coaxing me through every needle and every blood draw.

And there were always rewards.

these past years, my health had been decent. A common cold here, some over-the-counter meds there

never really faded. But fear or not, was grown up now, without my

“Don’t be afraid.”

his thumb gently caressing the back of my hand as he

“You being

it hurt any

bear the pain with you.” His voice

the man who always seemed to tower over me, now half-kneeling by my side, filling my heart and yet, stirring a pang of sadness. I murmured, “But

too low, he didn’t catch

shook

are better kept inside than

was off to the

Chapter 70

Bryant waited outside.

applied the gel, then handed me tissue to

find out about the pregnancy sooner or

soon.

I was as the examining doctor

“I… know.”

together,

Look, you can

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