Chapter 44
LUC
Once I realized Kylie had hung up on me, I stared at the phone. She had sounded nothing like the woman I had known; the resolve she had shown bordered on frigidity.
Dialing a number I hadn’t used in more than a year, Sky picked up on the second ring.
“Sky—”
“Yes?”
“I’m not going to pretend I didn’t see the news.”
“I’m sorry you had to find out that way.”
God, that woman had no warmth in her; she left it all on the set. I couldn’t give two fucks that she was pregnant. But I was relieved that I wasn’t the father of her children, because when I was done with this conversation with her, I would happily never speak to her again.
“But are you? You know what? I don’t care.”
I had even less time for polite conversation after I had begun to piece together what looked more and more like the worst betrayal of my life. One that had claimed my relationship with Kylie.
“Why are you calling, then?”
“All those years we tried for a baby—”
“Ugh, Luc, I’m sorry, but I was on the pill the entire time.”
Hatred burned through me. Not only had my ex-wife robbed me of the past, but she had nearly robbed me of my future.
“Why did you do it?”
I hated how broken I sounded when I asked the question.
“I couldn’t be second to baseball, Luc. When you got injured, I thought you’d quit. But then you started coaching. I thought maybe you would be willing to leave it so we could have a family. But I didn’t want to have a baby with a man who was never around.”
“You thought lies and manipulation would get you the life you wanted?”
“Well, when you put it that way—”
“Yeah, there’s no escaping it, is there, Sky? You fucked me out of everything.”
I slammed the phone down and headed directly for Kylie’s apartment. Sky’s lies might have hurt me, but they were never going to hurt Kylie again.