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“Don’t worry, I’ I’ he could catch anyway

He did not look appreciably cheered by that assurance “I expected you to be ahen I got back, but you were not”

“I had no way of knohen that would be”

“It is barely nine o’clock” He said it like he couldn’t i to bed this early And probably, he couldn’t The man needed less sleep than anyone she knew

If he knew she’d gone to bed as early as seven, he’d be convinced she was ill She saw no reason to enlighten him “I was tired”

“But you are not sick?”

“No”

“You are certain?”

“Yes”

“Are you pregnant?” He asked the question with the sain with

The words skewered her And there was no sense of anticipation in his features, no war else did right then

“No Not pregnant,” she forced out of stiff lips

“You are sure?”

She hadn’t started, but she was sure “I’e behavior is the result of period hor and her willingness to act on those feelings was caused by hormonal imbalances “If it pleases you to think so, then yes”

Hore was over was real His lack of love for her was fact Her unpredictable reproductive system was not the stuff fantasies were made of and the pain inside her was a physical ache that made it hard to breathe