Arthur nodded in the dark; aware that she might not be able to see, he said a beat later, "Yes." He wasn't going to leave again, or at least he did not intend to leave again. (He had not intended to leave in the first place.)

"I thought you didn't..." He had thought that she did not love him anymore, in the shock of being pregnant, but it was too terrible to say out loud, and he trailed off.

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