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A bitter laugh tore out of me. “I’ve been better. But I’m okay.”
“I’m sorry, Ky. So fucking sorry.”
“Luc, I’m going to need you to be very specific about what you’re apologizing for?—”
“All of it. I’m sorry I left without an explanation. I’m sorry, but I never explainedwhyI had to leave. And yes, Kelsey mentioned your pregnancy, and while it kills me that you moved on, it hurts even worse that you’re doing this on your own.”
Wait. What had he said?
“Luc, can you repeat what you said?”
“I’m sorry.”
“No, about my moving on. Why do you think I moved on?”
“Because you’re pregnant.”
“Luc, why would that mean I’ve moved on?”
“I can’t have kids.”
“And you’re sure about that?” I asked. And then the realization hit me. When the condom broke, he hadn’t been nervous.
“Oh, fuck!”
Something crashed in the background.
“Why didn’t you call me?”
“Aside from the fact that you fucking blocked me, you made it clear you didn’t want children.”
“No, Kylie. Ineversaid I didn’t want children. I desperately wanted a family, and the only reason I left you was because I didn’t want you to have the same fate as me.”
“I can’t do this right now.”
“Wait, Ky. Don’t hang up.”
His voice shook, and I waited for him to say something.
“You’re positive? There’s no doubt, no chance this isn’t mine?”
I might have cried during this conversation a couple of weeks ago, but today I couldn’t manage a single tear.
“It’s yours, Luc.”
A tortured cry ripped out of him, and I ended the call.
CHAPTER 44
LUC
Once I realized Kylie had hung up on me, I stared at the phone. She had sounded nothing like the woman I had known; the resolve she had shown bordered on frigidity.
Dialing a number I hadn’t used in more than a year, Sky picked up on the second ring.
“Sky—”
“Yes?”
