Chapter 15

Jennifer shook her head and exhaled shakily. "Devlin didn't even come to the hospital. He said he was out of town dealing with something important. I begged him to come. But he never did. I think that's when I stopped believing we had a future." Bryon, on the other hand, wouldn't even try to break the silence. He just listened. Jennifer brushed her fingers over the engraved letters. "No one has known. Not my parents, not friends. I buried the sorrow like I buried the baby, deep and silently. I did not wish to seem weak. I did not want to explain why Devlin was not there. I didn't want people feeling sorry for me." "But you don't deserve to go through all of that alone," Byron said gently. "I know that now," she said, whispering the last words. "But, back then, I thought it was my fault. Like my body gave up because it couldn't handle the pressure. Maybe I was not meant to be a mother." Byron shook his head. "Don't say that. You would have been an amazing mom." "Sometimes, I still