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"You brought it up," she snapped "But you never asked ree to keep you happy My whole life is aboutyou happy" She dropped her voice, a little sob creeping in "But I just wasn’t ready, Evan And I didn’t kno to tell you because you wanted a child so badly You can’t even ihtrope with you I didn’t want to disappoint you But I’m still not ready for a child, and I don’t want to adopt"
His brain, which his colleagues always told him was so quick, couldn’t process her words "But if you hadn’t et the pieces of his life to add up to so that actually made sense, "ould already have a child Three children"
He could hear a clock ticking somewhere Maybe it was inside his head, a ti off
Then it exploded as Whitney said, "No, ouldn’t" She sighed, as though she wished he would simply connect the dots she’d laid out for hies so you’d stop harping on ive me a choice You wanted what you wanted without any consideration for uilt or shanize the horrific nature of the lies she’d told The worst possible lies about the worst possible thing The utter anguish she’d caused And she’d been doing it for years He’d never questioned her Hell, he’d actually blamed himself
Until, in one fell swoop, at two pm on this late fall Monday afternoon, the blindfold was ripped from his eyes
Suddenly, he could see that every facial expression, every gesture, every sned tonot to lose it, his voice was al you’ve ever told me been true?"
"Of course it has" She rolled her eyes as if he were being ridiculous and overly drao, he would have accepted those three little words at face value, despite how difficult she’d been to live with for the past few years But the last five
"What else have you lied about?"
"Do you really want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?" She thren her words like a gauntlet
"I do" He’d said those sa, but they held a vastly differentnow
"Fine" She arched her brow as if she were doing hi the truth "I don’t ever want children And since you never askedon me, I had no choice but to take matters into my own hands and have my tubes tied"