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Shaking her head in confusion, she said, "But you just read that entire pregnancy book"
"Ten years with tutors is the only thing that got oddamned book I’ll never love books, Sophie Never" His expression grew even griht, back in the doctor’s office, when you called me an idiot"
"Oh my God, Jake No I didn’t mean that, you know I didn’t"
More than ever before, she needed to be able to think clearly to convince him that she loved him Especially now that she knew she’d said the absolutely worst thing she could have said to Jake
"I was scared and stunned that day in the doctor’s office when I said that horrible thing," she tried to explain, "but I could never think that you were-"
"Sure you could Because it’s true" He looked more fierce--and bleak--than she’d ever seen him "Don’t you see why I worked so hard to hide it froh Sophie at the fact that he hadn’t trusted her with soone out of his way toso important about him She had to put her ar out at it
And yet, despite her pain, wasn’t it true that she’d been too wrapped up in her accidental pregnancy, in hopes and dreams and her fears that Jake would never love her back the way she loved hi-held secret?
Now she was finally able to put it all together The fact that he didn’t have any books in his house, no azines or newspapers either All those months they’d , he’d never written anything down He always just stored the inforet if she didn’t take notes That ti about his pubs over breakfast, when the conversation had turned to her love of books and she’d asked him about his favorite book, hadn’t he ie way he’d reacted when she asked him if wanted to read one of the books at story tih that she’d al
"I love you," she whispered "You should have told ht she saw him wince at the word trust, but then his features blurred before her
"You keep telling oddamned fantasy Not thelook"
Sophie tried to focus on Jake’s face, wished she could get the words out to tell him it wasn’t true and that she did see hiood and the bad And she loved all of him Unconditionally
"I do knoho you really are," she said, barely able to pitch her voice above a whisper