She felt the weight of Jakob’s stare at the top of her head, so Tessa raised her eyes to meet his.
His words bobbed along in a stream of bitterness. “And our unborn children? Do they belong to you too?”
She felt the blood pulse in her cheeks, as though he had slapped her. “I was going to tell you. Honestly. But when you didn’t come back from the fishing trip I... Well, I was kind of angry. You can’t blame me for that, can you?”
“Can’t I?” He left Lut’s side and took a step towards her, without lowering keth’fell. “Don’t you think that kind of newsflash is a little more important than you being pissed off?”
Tessa felt remorse bubbling and rising inside her, and she drowned it with a shriek. “What did you do with Maia, Jakob? Tell me that.”
His angry expression crumpled. “I f****d her,
