Of all the people Elsie would tell the truth to, and Seb was the first, she'd been desperately hoping he would somewhat understand. It was obvious he was really struggling with it however and Elsie's heart sank just a little. She just wanted someone to be honestly happy for her. Despite how everything had happened and the rumors that would follow when news got out about the baby, she was truly happy.

She looked down at the package he'd brought where it sat on the table between them before looking back up at him, astonishment clear across her cheeks as if he'd struck her. Tears of frustration prickled at the corners of her eyes as her mouth fell open in horror. "You cannot possibly mean that question," She managed with a quiet sniffle, though she tilted her chin up just a little. "Is that really what you think of him, of me? That I am not just as guilty here? Did you not hear me when I said we are in love?"

Elsie was not normally so emotional, but this was Sebastian and maybe it was the pregnancy talking, but she would defend her marriage to anybody who questioned it like that— especially to someone who should know better. "How do you think it happened? I snuck out, I did. I crawled into his bed, very willingly I might add, because I have never cared about someone as much as I love Tyb. I lost him for a long while based on a bad decision and thinking he was better off without me and I was miserable, he was miserable." Tears leaked from the corners of her eyes now, but her tone had lost its initial bite.

"But I am not miserable now, I am in fact incredibly content, even if it didn't happen the way it was supposed to, we got what we wanted. I will not raise this baby with family who think so little of me and my husband." Elsie knew that she may lose friends and family over this, it was a very real possibility and she had come to terms with it, even if it made her heart ache.