LINDEN

 

What the fuck did I just do?

I felt fucking terrible. My eyes felt hot with inconvenient tears. I told her before my father that I would never hurt her, yet I did it in the worst way possible.

It broke my heart because I let my emotions get the best of me. I couldn’t unsee the look on my wife’s face, the pain in her eyes— the woman I loved, the mother of my unborn child. 

That was the most foolish thing I’d ever done. 

It was unfair. 

I broke her heart to save another life. And my child— I wished she didn’t feel her mother’s pain, and...