Leona laughed bitterly. "All this time, did you think I dumped Kayden because I was bored? Because I was tired? I wasn't. I... I love him, Victoria. I love him more than anything. But I can't give him children. I can't carry his children. I'm barren."
Victoria's throat closed up. She covered her mouth, her body began to shake.
"I broke off my relationship with Kayden because I didn't want to tie him to something as broken as me," Leona's voice broke into tears. "I wanted so much to be a mother, Victoria. I wanted so much to have a little baby that I could cuddle every night. But I can't. God didn't give me that chance."
Leona wiped away her tears roughly.
"And you... you want to get rid of this little life so easily. Like it's garbage. As if... as if you don't know how precious it is.
