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"Adaret now I blamed you for what happened and I shouldn’t have done that"

I shrugged "You weren’t wrong"

His eyes narrowed "Yes Yes, I rong I want you to understand whereall that She…" He hesitated and then took a deep breath "She was falling apart You two had just broken up and then she found out about the cancer and she sworea secret I had no right to keep"

My jaw tightened and then I relaxed it enough to speak "You were being loyal You were doing what she wanted"

He shook his head "She wasn’t rational I shouldn’t have agreed But I did and I bla blas that we shouldn’t be"

He studiedthe side of his mouth with the back of his hand "Yeah…so about that I’ at you and those weeks afterhen I wasn’t very kind…I rong I was stressed out beyond words and worried out of et to focus all of that on"

"Well, like I said before, thanks for being there for her when she needed soh this very uncomfortable conversation

He looked away and then, when I , he put a hand on ive up on her"

My shoulders sagged "It’s not aup on her…"

"Man, I knohat you are thinking I know you can’t take what she’s doing to herself She just needs the time to heal from all of this It’s been a shitty year for both of you But fro choice and we both know she made the choice for the best But I don’t think she’s realized that yet"

I shookI put her in that situation--"

Heath’s hand slipped off my shoulder and he nodded "Hmm Somehow I knew that was at the bottom of all this That she isn’t the only one wrapped up in her own irrationality Given her emotional state these last few et ical than she had to end a pregnancy that I caused in the first place?"