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“Baby, for the first time ever, I don’t think you are. You were at your breaking point. You need time to heal.”
“But I’m not healing. I’m hurting so bad, and I don’t know where to start. I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I have Gwen covering for me with Dad and that’s messing with their relationship. Lizzy sounds like she’s lost and I’m here miserable.”
“Then come back. We’ll figure it out together.”
“I can’t. I won’t hurt him like that. I can’t choose you and not him.”
“I’m not asking you to. I’m asking you to let him fix it.”
“Bye, Jace. Thanks for the call. Check on my sister, please.”
“I love you, Ny. I’m here whenever you need me.”
“I love you too. I haven’t stopped loving either of you.”
The call ends and I close my eyes. Lizzy, that’s the gift I’ll give her. I’ll give Lizzy the friend she needs. I’ll have a part of Ny and she’ll know her sister is okay.
New plan in mind, I start to piece things together. I turn the corner and Jace comes into view.
“You were there the whole time,” he says.
“At least she’s talking to you.”
“Have you tried to call?”
“All the fucking time.”
He holds his hands up as if in surrender. “You know she’s stubborn. I’m not saying she’s wrong, but she’s not going to make this easy for us either.”
“Let me ask you something. This twin thing. It doesn’t sound crazy to you?”
“No, at the end of the day, Ny has been telling us she’s not going to choose between us. Yes, she loves you as her first everything because that’s who you are to her, but she loves me too. It only makes sense she wouldn’t want to choose who her baby’s father is.”
“Um.” I fold my arms across my chest. “Do you think we can really pull it off?”
“What does it hurt to try?”
“Jace, I don’t want children. Look at what I’m doing to keep Nyla safe. I’m not pretending my children are nothing to me like what I’ve done to Ny… I want to take it back with all my heart.”
“We can’t go back. We can only go forward. I want what she wants with everything I am, but I’m not going to force that on you. I don’t think there’s been a time in your life I haven’t seen something forced on you.
“This has to be your decision. Your happiness.”
I throw my head back and blow a breath out, then shake my head clear.
“Babies from us both,” I scoff.
“I have a question for you. Really think about it. You’re willing to share a wife with me, right?”
“I’ve thought about it.”
“If I had a child with someone else and something were to happen to me, would you not raise that child as your own?”
“That would become my son or daughter. You know that without question.”
He sits silently, staring me in the eyes. “God, I hate you.”
“The world teaches us we’re not masculine if we show love to another man openly. You know I love you like crazy, I’d die for you, if you need a hug after a fucked-up day, my arms are open.
