Charlotte’s POV
The words struck me right in the center of my chest. He might as well have hit me. In fact, I would have preferred it.
“You have no idea what it’s like to be a parent… Because you lost your baby before it was even born.”
How dare he.
How dare Kieran bring that up just to win an argument? Just to make me feel small and incompetent? It was cruel, even for him, and I couldn’t take it anymore.
My hands balled into fists, and without thinking, I shoved him as hard as I could. He stumbled back a step, eyes widening slightly in surprise, like he hadn’t expected me to care that he had just brought up my dead baby like it was ammunition for his gun of a mouth.
“f**k you,” I spat out, spittle flying. I jammed my finger into the center of his sternum. “You don’t get to use my de
