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“Listen to me, Lauren, these are your beautiful babies You love them; you will never hurt them, no look at me” I’d stopped here before never saw past this point, so noatched and listened, not daring to breathe

“It’s me you hate, not them I’m the one who messed up I’m the one who should’ve stayed away It wasn’t hi to do with it Now let’s go downstairs and talk about it”

“No, you’re trying to trick me”

“No, I’m not, I promise you I’m not I understand trust me, I do”

“What, what do you understand? Why are you looking ather words

“I know that you have so to be ashamed of Didn’t you feel better when you were on the pills the doctor gave you?”

“I don’t need the to find out, and then he’s going to leave me for you”

“You know better than that, you know he’s not that type of lect the mother of his children just because she needs to take some pills to make her feel better”

“Not that, it’s not that miss know it all”

I saw the quizzical look on Jenny’s face and foundforward to hear what my ould say next “I oing to leave me for sure I know hi to hate me”

Lauren rocked back and forth “What is it that you think you’ve done, Mrs Masters, that would make your husband hate you?”

“I fucked someone else okay, are you happy now? I only did it because of you, because you were alwayshim those looks like you two had a secret that I didn’t know about”