In the Shadow of the CEO
She laughed again, but this time there were tears in her eyes.
"You're thinking you hate me, don't you. Fine, do it. Just don't forget that you would have been the father of my child, our child, if the baby hadn't died. You would have a living, breathing son right now if I hadn't had to - you don't understand. You couldn't ever. How could you know what it's like to deliver a miscarriage alone at home on the toilet with no one there for you? Not the father of your baby, even. Because that's what it was, not just a 'miscarriage.' I didn't ask during my checkups whether we were going to have a boy or a girl because I wanted to find out together, do you know that? And I certainly didn't want to