All Yours Daddies (by Mirabella) novel Chapter 2

SARAH

Malachi pauses. He looks down at Aaron, then to Ronan, then to Jaxon.

I see the horror that rests in Aaron’s eyes, and the looks on Jaxon and Malachi’s faces.

They’re all staring at me like they know something I don’t.

Do they know something I don’t?

“You don’t know? I mean, we assumed it’s why you two never had kids together.”

I clear my throat and take a step forward, as though it’ll help me make Malachi’s words clearer.

“Yes. We could never have kids due to a health condition. But the condition is mine. Uterine Hypoplasia.”

Malachi stares at me like I’m crazy, so I force myself to explain further.

“My uterus is underdeveloped. It’ll be impossible to carry a child of my own. I tried to bring up adoption or surrogacy over the years but he didn’t want to. So…”

I pause.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Malachi’s right fingers stroke his chin gently as he wears a thoughtful look on his face.

“I’m just trying to understand something.”

I raise my left brow.

“Okay?”

“So you’re suffering from Uterine Hypo…you know.”

He doesn’t reply to me, but I go ahead.

“Doctor Sanders is one of your closest friends, and our family doctor. Once this is over, I am going to get a second opinion on my condition. But before that, I want to know something.”

The words are heavy in my mouth. All of a sudden, there’s no one in the room but Aaron, all the memories we have together—good and bad—and me.

I need him to look me in the eyes and tell me I’m being paranoid. I need him to gaslight me into thinking I’m crazy.

For the first time in six years, I desperately need him to lie to me.

“Do I really have Uterine Hypoplasia?” The question is followed by another stream of tears.

When Aaron looks away from me, telling me his answer with his silence once again, everything fades away.

One moment, I’m seated, ass glued to the edge of the couch. Then the next, I hear Malachi’s voice echo from a distance as someone struggles to pull me off Aaron’s body.