Pregnancy Of Passion

’I did not forget.”

‘Right.” She glared at him. Men, especially macho men like Salvatore, had a hard time admitting when they’d messed up.

‘You just decided to forgo any attempt at preventing the conception of a ‘Child ”

‘This is so ” ‘What?” She could not have heard what she thought she had just heard. No way. Not possible.

‘I chose to do nothing to prevent pregnancy.”

‘you said you didn’t have a condom with you.” Was that whisper-soft voice sounding so stunned hers?

‘I did not, but I could have made love differently to you.”

‘But you didn’t.”

‘I did not ” She plopped down into the dining chair she had vacated earlier her legs going wobbly on her.

‘Because you thought real men didn’t pull out, or something?” His eyes mocked her words.

‘That thought was not in my mind.”

‘What thought was in your mind, then? You can’t tell me you wanted me to get pregnant.”

‘But I did. I do.”

She could actually feel the blood draining from her face as shock made her heart skip a beat and her breathing shallow.

‘you want me to get pregnant?” she asked again incapable of voicing any other concept.

But why?”

‘there are many reasons.”

‘

name one ”

‘Your health ”

‘you think I’ll be healthier pregnant? But that’s absurd.”

‘Afraidso. I spoke to a doctor after your miscarriage. He warned me you might have what is termed postpartum depression.”

She’d heard of after-the-baby blues, but she hadn’t had a baby and said so.

‘The hormones that become imbalances can do so after a miscarriage as well. It was clear you were still sad still not functioning under your normal faculties. Not only have you stayed away from other men this year, but you have also stopped socializing altogether. You moved from your apartment but you never go back to visit the friends you had in your old building. You refuse every invitation from di Adamo to share a meal with his family.”

‘I suppose your spies told you that too ” she cried stung by his assessment of her.

‘No. Your boss. He is worried also, but he thinks the sadness is due to our breakup.”

‘lt was! And to losing the baby. I don’t have some sort of chemical imbalance you need to fix by getting me pregnant.”

‘perhaps, but the grief counselor I spoke to also said that having another baby would help you with the grief over losing our first one.”

‘you talked to a grief counselor and a doctor abo

ut me?”