Probably afraid that Nelson Cooper would refuse, Beatrice jumped in quickly.
"We'll deal with whether or not you're marrying Serena later. But Claire's been wronged, and the Cooper family needs to give her an explanation. Since you decided to leave her long ago, you should've done it cleanly! Now you're still carrying the title of her husband and running off to care for the woman who hurt her as a kid — have you even thought about how Claire must feel?"
"I didn't handle it right, I get that. But this was literally a life-or-death situation — I couldn't think of everything. When I see her tomorrow night, I'll apologize properly."
Nelson didn't even pause before replying, which was rare enough that Beatrice didn't catch on at first. She thought, as usual, that her son wasn't going
