Chapter 200 Shattered Futures

• She rose to her feet, more tears streaming down her cheeks. She came toward me, reaching out like she had any right to touch me.
• “I’m so sorry,” she cried, voice trembling. “I… I always took the pills. I did. I swear I did. But sometimes I forget. And—I got pregnant during the first year of our marriage. The timing was so wrong. I had just broken into the industry. I was finally being seen. One pregnancy would’ve destroyed everything I’d worked for. The contracts, the endorsements… the momentum. It would’ve all disappeared overnight. So I kept the pregnancy from you and decided to have it aborted.”
• Her words felt like blades, slicing through every bit of restraint I had left.