Still pacing, I began fighting against some powerful emotion welling in my chest. I wasn’t quite sure if it was anger, pain, frustration, or a combination of all three. All I knew was that it was building, growing, seeming to spread from my chest to my entire body with every beat of my heart. In fact, whatever this emotion was, it had begun to make my hands shake, and my legs felt rubbery, like I was walking on springs. I had the strange feeling that something was about to hit me like a tidal wave, or rather burst out of me like a tidal wave. But I didn’t even know what it was.
“I thought we’d gotten over this, Jim. I thought we were finally going to be happy, with no conflict about all this between us.”
“We can still be happy. I love you no matter what, Avery. But I do feel like we at l
