Teagan's Point of View
The silence was deafening. I could hear my heart loudly inside the small bathroom. Dared not to look at Harland, even when I felt his body slip away from mine. Put space between us.
Slowly, I turned my head. Looked at him with a fleeting glance.
Only to find shock and fear written across his face. Seemed to become part of him. His hand was floating in the air between us.
"I- I- I thought you were on," He sucked in a deep breath. Now I could hear his heart hammering against his ribs. A fast pace that told me everything I already knew. "Birth control."
The word came out like venom. Was spat into the air between us.
He was accusing me of having done something so that the birth control would fail.
It was a low blow but one I could sympathize with.
Neither of us planned on becoming parents. The option only came into play when I discovered Ulrich and Bellamy. Not that we had discussed it beforehand. We didn't have the luxury of time for that.
But now it was a pressi