Chapter 19 - WHAT DEREK ADMITTEDWe met with our lawyers present.
I did not trust myself alone with him.
Derek looked exhausted.
I was twenty-seven weeks pregnant.
He said:
“I knew there was a chance.”
I did not answer.
“I told myself there wasn’t.”
“Why?”
He rubbed his hands.
“Because if the baby was mine—”
He stopped.
“What?”
“I’d have to decide whether I left because our marriage was broken or because Jessica made leaving feel easier.”
“Jessica did not make you pack.”
“I know.”
“Jessica did not tell your mother I cheated. You did.”
“I know.”
“Jessica did not bring herself into Dr. Evans’s room. You brought her.”
“I know.”
He started crying.
I felt almost nothing.
Then he said:
“I wanted the test to make me right.”
That was probably the most honest thing he ever told me.
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He wanted biology to absolve him.
Instead biology made his choices visible.
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