"You have a daughter? With Magdalena?!" Cartier asked as tears blurred her eyes. "Of all people...why her?!" She asked aloud, allowing her inner thoughts to be expressed outward and without care of the consequences, such as being heard or judged for her words.
"Magdalena and I have a complicated history but it hasn't been romantic for either of us for a long time..." Dominick attempted to reach out to ease her by the feeling of his skin upon her own, but found this to only make her distance herself upon the room even farther. Isolated from the others that they attempted to share a lunch with an hour prior, the couple was now emotionally obliterated while located within the same four walls.
"But she is...everything I'm not and you have a daughter with her...one who loves you more than a
