“I accepted that years ago.”
“Did you?” he asked. “Mallory is expecting a baby. I thought you should know before you heard it from someone else.”
Every word was meant to reopen old wounds.
During their marriage, Gavin had allowed his mother, Lorraine, to speak to Camille as though she were somehow incomplete. Lorraine brought up grandchildren at holiday dinners, recommended new doctors without being asked, and once told Camille that wealth meant little if a woman could not carry on the family name.
Gavin never defended her.
Instead, he accompanied Camille to appointment after appointment, silently allowing her to shoulder the blame.
Only after the divorce did Camille discover that she had never been the reason they could not have children.
Gavin had known the truth the entire time.
Camille glanced toward her triplets.
“Congratulations,” she said calmly.
The silence on Gavin’s end lingered for several seconds.
