Terrible Secret

‘Like, who made the first move?’ I said. ‘When was your first kiss? Where? First time you slept with him? Spill the deets, Cara, or I’m not going to forgive you for not telling me any of this back then.’ ‘Maybe some other time.’ ‘Fine.’ I didn’t want to push her too hard and changed the topic. ‘Can you at least tell me why you left Lisbern? It sounded like you had a good thing going with Fitz.’ ‘I did. At one point, I thought I was going to marry him. Buy a house, start a family, you know, the normal routine. But then…’ Cara’s voice hitched. ‘I had to go. I got pregnant.’ ‘Fitz didn’t want you to have the baby?’ ‘No, it’s not like that. He didn’t know. The baby…’ Cara struggled to hold back her tears. I gathered her into my arms, stroked her hair. ‘It’s okay if you don’t want to talk right now. We can just get some sleep.’ She buried her face in the curve of my shoulder, took a deep breath. ‘No. I want to get it off my chest. If don’t do it now, I might never get up the nerve again. Fi