IRIS
I stayed with the tests as I could not bring myself to throw them away. I had not told Leo the news. He was already doing so much for me and adding I was pregnant with the child of the man I had left him for, felt insulting. You have to tell him, Zorya had said on the second day.
Tell who? I asked
Leo. He deserves to know what he's signing up for.
He has already signed up for enough. I said, but I knew it was just an excuse.
Iris… she warned. We owed Leo the truth this time.
But I still did not tell him. Not on the second day, the third day, or the fourth. On the fifth day, the guilt was eating me from inside and when Leo came home from work he found me sitting at the kitchen table, the three pregnancy tests lined up in front of me. I had not planned to do it that way. I had n
