Page 96 of Her Loyalty

"Really?" She gasped and I nodded slowly.

"But then I went to the clinic yesterday and they ran test on me.."

"And we found out I wasn't really pregnant." I sighed deeply and she sat there for a while collecting her words, obviously speechless.

"I don't know how to feel about it." I admitted and she sighed, reaching across the table to grab my hand.

"Well how do you feel? Did you want to be?" She went onto ask and I shrugged.

"I don't know."

"Kind of."

"I just graduated, mom." I sighed heavily.

"But the way Dominic talked about it last night, I feel like it really broke him." I admitted to her and she raised her eyebrows.

"What'd he say?"

"He told me he really wanted me to be and I was so happy about not being. Now I feel so bad because I didn't know that he was feeling that way, you know?"

"And I didn't even take the time to think about him."

"I was so caught up in myself." I admitted.

"Well you have the right to be relieved and you have the right to be happy. There's no problem in that, you're young." She explained.

"Just like he has the right he has in being upset about it." She went on.

"But definitely the same way he explained to you why he's upset, explain to him why you feel the way you do as well. So he can understand from your perspective and not think that you don't care about his feelings. Especially since the two of you are working on being together again, communication this time around is important."

"And also remember that just because he's a man doesn't mean he doesn't have feelings too."

"You're right." I nodded in agreement. I definitely needed him to know that I cared about his feelings because I really do. I mean, we'd talked last night but it was important for him to know this.

I didn't want him thinking otherwise.

"I'll talk to him." I said more to myself as my mind wandered.

"Thanks, mom."

"Anytime, baby."

*

Later that day

3pm

"You hungry?" Dom asked taking a pull from his blunt while we sat in his car out front of his house.

"No, I just had food with mom. She cooked." I spoke softly and he nodded, filling the car with smoke.

"I brought you some. It's in the house." I said to him and he raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah?"

"Yes." I smiled small as he leaned over the threshold and placed a kiss onto my lips.

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