“They were twins.”

The roses slipped out of Nathan’s hands and scattered on the floor.

“We weren’t able to save the pregnancy,” Sebastian said, and he said it gently, the way a decent man says the worst thing he has to say, and I will not write more about that moment than that, because there are losses that should not be made into scenes.

Nathan put his back against the wall as if the wall were the only thing holding him up.