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Оглавление“Beck,” she whispered. “Please try to understand.”
He took hold of her neck and drew her closer to him. “Understand what? That you ran away from me?”
“I didn’t run away. My mother sent me.” She covered his mouth with a cold hand. Tears glimmered in her eyes. “Beck, I was pregnant.”
He swept her hand away and rose up onto his elbows, a sucker punch pummeling his chest. “Pregnant?”
She nodded as tears glistened and flowed over her lids.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” He shot up to sit. “We could have worked something out. I had plans for us.”
“You don’t understand.”
A torrent of mixed-up feelings swept over him—anger, grief, frustration—they swirled together, making him queasy. He jumped off the bed, fought for balance and set off pacing the floor. “You were pregnant with my child and you didn’t tell me?” He bit back the wave of nausea that pressed against his stomach and threatened to move up his throat. “How could you not tell me?”
