known. What were you going to do? Keep it a
secret forever? I’m its father, Erin. Did you think I
wouldn’t accept my responsibilities?”
“I didn’t want you to feel any obligation.”
“Obligation? We’re talking about a child,our
child.”
“And what can you tell me about your
researcher girlfriend?”
“There is no researcher girlfriend. We left each
other a month ago. She went back to America.”
“Did she leave you?”
“It didn’t work out. She finished her time here
and went home. That’s it.”
“I see,” I reply resentfully.
He threw away everything for a few months of
sex with another woman.
“What are your intentions?” he asks dubiously.
“You know…”
“I’m having this child, Nate.”
“Yes, of course, that’s not what I intended to
say. I was just asking how you were thinking of
organizing your life, if there’s anyone to help
you.”
I can’t look him in the face to tell him about
Patrick. I look away and he comes to his own
conclusion.
“The gorilla, huh?” He says with a strained
smile. “I should have seen it coming.”
“Nate, listen, I don’t want anything from you,
okay? Nothing.”
