Ethan glanced at Chloe, who was looking at him and listening attentively to every word that he said. It felt like he had been talking for an eternity, and his throat was parched. Clearing his throat, he took a deep breath and continued his story, remembering and ruing his actions on that day. He sat on his couch for some minutes, doing nothing except for staring into space. Now that he thought about it, the fact that she had had an abortion without telling him was not the problem here. The problem was the fact that she had gone ahead to have an IUD inserted without informing him when they had laid down their plans and decided to have their first child within a year of their marriage. In fact, Mildred had told him that she could not wait and the truth was that neither could he. Now, she w

