Descended (The Red Blindfold Book 4) by Rose Devereux

Author:Rose Devereux [Devereux, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Devereux Books
Published: 2016-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

If I was stuck in this life – and there was no doubt I was – then I’d have to make the best of it.

In this case, the best of it meant talking to the man I was supposed to love, as Ivy had suggested. It meant knowing our history together, and trying to make it matter to me even a little bit.

A few days after Drex walked out of my life, I sat across the dinner table from David asking questions. At least when he was helping me fill in the pieces of my past, we weren’t sitting in gut-wrenching silence.

“How did we meet?” I asked, trying to look interested. “I mean, I know you were my teacher, but how did it happen?”

He took a sip of wine from a crystal glass etched with our initials. According to David, it had been a wedding gift from his parents.

“Well, it was your first year in law school and I was teaching Contracts. You used to stay after class to ask questions. It wasn’t exactly ethical to get involved, but we were very discreet about it. We didn’t have our first date until you weren’t my student anymore.”

“When did we get married?”

“About eighteen months later. It was all very romantic. We had a couple of cheap rings made by a silversmith in town. I was going to buy you a diamond, but you just wanted something simple. We eloped to Grand Cayman.”

“Eloped?”

I could imagine eloping if I was hopelessly in love, but doing something so romantic with David? If he hadn’t been opening our wedding album, I might not have believed him.

But all the evidence was there.

The ceremony on the beach. David in shorts and a flowered shirt, me in a white sundress. We were both barefoot, both smiling. I looked so young and innocent, so different from the woman I’d become.

“We must have had fun,” I said, a knot of sadness in my throat.

“We did,” he said. “We promised to take a vacation every year, and we have.”

“And we usually go alone?”

“Well, yeah,” he said. “Not this year, though.”

His voice faded, and I sensed I was asking too much. But I wasn’t finished yet. There were still so many things I needed to know.

“Okay, well,” I said, pressing on. “I have another question. A few weeks ago, I saw… well…”

He gave me a wary glance. “What?”

“Um…did we ever have a child?”

His expression was flat. “No.”

“Did we want to?”

“Karina…”

I frowned. “I want to know.”

His face looked pinched and drawn. “You want to discuss it now?”

‘Yes,” I said. “I do.”

“All right, well…” He swallowed. “There’s no easy way to say this.”

My heart was a frozen stone. “So just say it.”

“Three years ago. You had a miscarriage in the fifth month.” He stared down at the floor. “The baby didn’t make it. You almost didn’t either.”

I stopped breathing. I didn’t want to know this. I wished to God I hadn’t asked.

No wonder Ivy couldn’t tell me. I knew I should feel something, but I was numb to the core.

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