It's Not Over

#Chapter315 It's Not Over

/"There's a lot……. My heads a little fried. I'm also sort of shellshocked about this./" he gazes at my stomach and blinks back the instant damp sheen on his eyes and exhales heavily once more. My heart skipping a beat or two with the slightest worry that maybe babies are not something he's actually happy about and that's why he's being evasive and strange. We have never really talked about it and we were using precautions to avoid exactly this.

My heart flutters with the very real possibility that this isn't just down to his guilt gnawing at his soul, but the fact he's going to be a father and maybe it was never in the plan for him. I swallow heavily and try not to dwell on the slight chance, he's devastated about it.