“You’re here,” she said, crying. She was always crying, kind of like Betty.
You stupid idiot!
They had been having unprotected sex for the past couple of months. In fact, their entire relationship, neither of them had done anything to protect themselves from pregnancy.
“I could be pregnant,” she said.
He pulled back, cupping her face, and staring into her eyes. “Are you sure?”
“I don’t know. I’m an idiot. I took a test, and it came back negative so I just assumed I had a cold, but I keep getting sick. With everything that is going on, I didn’t think about it.”
“Sh, it’s okay. We’ll talk.” He looked over her head, and she looked over his shoulder to see Damian.
Glancing back at her friend, she saw that Betty had frozen.
“We should leave both of them to talk,” Harper said. “Are you okay?”
“Yes, I have to tell him some time.”
Harper grabbed Abel’s jacket, and shoved him out of the door. “We’re going to go for a walk. We’ll be back in an hour.”
“Where are we going?” Abel asked.
She took his hand, leading him away from the apartment, and shoving Damian inside. Harper grabbed her jacket, putting it on as they made their way down toward the outside.
“We’re going to the pharmacy, and then a bathroom,” she said.
“You want to take the tests out in the open?”
“Nope. I want to do them in a bathroom, but we need to give Damian and Betty some privacy.”
“Why?”
“She’s pregnant with his baby.”
Abel paused. “What?”
“They’re going to have a child together.”
“I know.”
Harper understood his hesitancy. “I was afraid of you,” she said, drawing his attention back to her.
His eyes filled with regret. “I know.”
“Thank you,” she said.
Abel frowned. “I don’t get it.”
“You saved me. That night when you took their lives, you saved mine. I didn’t even think about that at the time, or since. We could have both been dead.”
He walked up toward her, wrapping his arms around her. “I wouldn’t have let that happen.”
“I know, and I wanted to thank you.” She closed her eyes, resting her head against his chest. This was what she’d been missing for the past week. “I’ve missed you so much.”
“We have a lot to talk about. Would you like me to drive you to the pharmacy?”
“No. We can walk, and talk, if that’s okay with you?”