(ALICE)
This is the one scenario that I wanted to avoid at all costs. This is why I brought Mira to a park farther away from our apartment. To see Darian holding our daughter fills me with a strange emotion. Fear is followed by something unknown, a tense feeling that causes the pit of my stomach to twist.
But he lets her walk away.
He doesn't scream at me, he doesn't blame me. After all the reactions I once imagined, I saw none of them. Instead, he's angry that I endured the pregnancy alone?
I have never wanted to hear his explanation for what happened that night. I always knew it would be filled with lies to paint him in a better light.
Perhaps it is the shock of seeing him with Mira that has me struggling to speak, giving him the opportunity to talk.
And when he does talk, I have no choice but to listen.
