The small white object was a pregnancy test.
It had two lines.
Nathaniel stared at it for long enough that Claire counted to eleven in her head, which was something she did when she needed something to do while her heart was performing acrobatics.
"Four days," she said. "I found out four days ago and then everything with Vanessa happened and I did not want to tell you in the middle of that and then I kept waiting for the right moment and then I realized I was using Vanessa as a reason not to say something I was actually just frightened to say."
He looked up from the test.
"Frightened," he said carefully.
"We have not talked about this," she said. "Children. We have talked about everything else in the past year but not this. And I did not know what you wanted. And I did not know what
