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“Shane, you need to listen toso much that her teeth rattled “I made an appointment at a clinic in the city”

“Youthat fear now rested on her face ‘How the fuck long have you known about this?”

She shook her head and said nothing

Before he could stop himself, his hands were on her shoulders and he shook her so hard that her head snapped back and he didn’t stop until her whi away, Shane fought hard to get control and when he did he could barely speak “How the fuck long?”

“A feeeks,” she said eventually, her eyes sliding away from his

“So last e went to that big bush party, you knew?”

She nodded

“Last night ent back to my place…when you snuck into my room and we fucked for hours…you knew”

She winced, but again she nodded

“You knew you were pregnant and you knew you weren’t going to have it”

For the longest time there were no words and when he took a step toward her, she shook her head and gulped “I’ this baby, Shane I can’t I need you to understand Can you understand?”

Shane couldn’t explain the blackness inside hier, confusion and betrayal

“You’ve already made your decision so why the hell do need me to understand? Why the hell do you need me at all?”

“What are you saying? What do you mean?”

The blackness crushed him fro—or saying—he’d set his path and ruined the one good thing he had ever had