part 2 The man who spent eleven years blaming me for our childlessness threw me out of our home9-008v

by my own confession.

“I found out this morning,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper. “After years of being told it might never happen. After everything. I came home to tell him.”

Gabriel’s face changed slowly. Shock first. Then tenderness. Then sorrow so deep it looked almost like reverence.

“My dear,” he said.

That was all.

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