It was that you knew what this baby meant to me, and you left me alone with that fear.

Then I learned you’d been lying for months.

I felt as though the person beside me all those years hadn’t been real.”

Lucas kept his hands in his pockets and listened.

“I know,” he said when she finished.

“I don’t have an excuse.”

“There will be days when I trust you more,” Hannah continued.

“And days when a late phone call or a bill I didn’t expect makes me remember everything.