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“Would you walk away right now if you could?”

“Daht I would, Tate I’er I’d like a hot bath and to sleep into happen now, so just fucking talk if that’s what you want Or else leave”

My chest heaved, the pain shot up and down h to bury the pain “Besides,” I started, trying to sound much calmer, “what do we have to talk about?”

He leaned forward and settled his angry gray eyes on nant with my baby?”

Yeah, there was that

Chapter 21

Tate

I knew I’d shocked Teddy but she was a pro, her e away There was a lot of bat-shit crazy shooting through her head if she thought for one damn second I’d let her keep a child fro to say?”

She blinked, her long eyelashesabout?”

“Seriously, Teddy? That’s how you want to do this? Fine, I heard the nurse tell you she brought your prenatal vitao and yet, she hadn’t told

“You must haveelse, refusing to answer even basic questions about her pain levels as she reached over to the end table for a book and pretended to read a iven up the pretense and dragged her laptop off the coffee table, wincing in pain rather than ask me for her help, and checked her email Then, she called her employees and let them know she was homebound for the foreseeable future and issued orders like a drill sergeant

I sat right beside her the entire ti for her to relent She never did Not even when the pizza and wings I ordered arrived She extended her good arm beyond the point of pain to reach for her food, rather than ask me

“Da two slices and a feings onto her plate

“Thanks,” she murmured and inhaled the food Teddy didn’t say another word toher fill, she took a pill and fell asleep nestled into the corner of the sofa By the time she woke up, it was nearly dinnertime

I held a glass of water out to her so she could take her pills “How’s your pain?”