Sebastian's POV I had listened to that phone call a hundred times in my head, and it got worse every time.“He believes every word. He has no idea. Why would he? He thinks the world turns for him.”I sat alone in my study with the door shut and the house dark around me, and I turned it over and over, looking for the innocent version, the reading where it meant nothing.But there wasn't one. I had built my whole career on knowing when someone was lying. I just hadn't wanted to point that gift at the woman I had burned my marriage down for.I got out the calendar and did the thing I had been avoiding for weeks.I counted.The night Nicole first told me she was pregnant. The night she first pressed my hand to her stomach and smiled. I lined it up against the due date, the real one, the one before it started moving, and I counted backward the way any man can count, and the number didn't work.It didn't work at all.Sitting there in the dark with the pen in my hand, I felt something col
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