Page 119 of Homewrecker

My chest cracked open and tears filled my eyes. “What?”

He looked at me and realized. “No. That came out wrong.”

I laughed. “Came out wrong?”

“I mean with everything happening.”

I stared at him. “Everything happening.”

“The divorce.”

“What the fuck does my baby have to do with your divorce?”

“Blair, listen.”

“No, you listen.” My voice broke. “You walked in here and the first thing you said about our baby was what it could do to your wife.”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“It is exactly what you meant!”

He stood. “I’m trying to explain.”

“Then explain!”

He paced. “If Ravenna finds out I’m having a child while we’re still legally married, she’s going to lose it.”

My tears fell. “And?”

His head snapped toward me. “And what?”

“What does that have to do with whether I have this baby?”

“Everything.”

I shook my head. “No. It doesn’t.”

“Blair—”

“She already knows the marriage is over, right?”

He went quiet.

I laughed a bitter one. “Right?”

“She knows where I stand.”

“I am so fucking tired of that sentence.”

“She knows I’m filing.”

“Then file.”

“I’m trying.”

“You’ve been trying for the longest.”

“I slowed it down because—”