For one second, everything around me faded.
The cars passing by.
The distant conversations.
Even the sound of the city.
I turned slowly.
Dominic was already looking at me, his expression tighter now, more careful. Like he knew one wrong word would make me walk away again.
My fingers tightened slightly around my bag. “What about him?” I asked calmly.
His throat moved before he spoke. “I didn’t know.”
I stared at him without responding.
“I swear to you, Aurelia… I didn’t know.”
My expression didn’t change. “And now you do,” I said coldly.
A brief silence stretched between us.
His eyes searched my face desperately, like he was trying to find something softer there.
Anything.
“He’s five,” he said quietly. “I did the math.”
My jaw tightened slightly.
“You were pregnant when you
