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struggles before they married would not have made her leave him at the altar. She loved
the man he was when they met; she would have stuck by that Kurt. She couldn’t say the
same about the man Kurt had become in the last two years.
“I was doing what was best for us,” Kurt said, raising his hands as if to say “I give up.”
“Totally disregarding my needs is what’s best for us?” she pointed out. Settling a hand
on her knee didn’t stop the nervous energy that made it shake. She turned to Officer
Buchanan and said in a low voice, “I agreed to wait to have children, though.” Breathing
deeply, she concentrated on not bursting into tears. She’d shed enough already. “Then
about seven months ago, his stepfather gave us more than enough money to put his
business on solid ground, and Kurt still wanted me to wait!” Her mouth twisted into a
contemptuous frown. “Then just a few hours ago, up pops a mistress I never knew he
had.”
Officer Buchanan stopped taking notes and tossed a furious gaze at Kurt like she was
ready to tear his head off.
Val flashed eight fingers in the air. “She. Was. Eight. Months. Pregnant!” Each word
was more shrill than the previous one. Thrusting an index finger toward her husband, she
yelled, “With his child!”
“Yeah, but she got pregnant by mistake,” Kurt shot back from the other side of the
room.
The officers shared a speaking glance and frowned.
“You got pregnant on purpose,” Kurt snarled with disdain.
Val’s rage propelled her off the arm of the sofa. “Oh, so it’s okay for you to have an
affair and accidentally get your lover pregnant, but it’s not okay for your wife to carry
your seed?!” Hands on her hips, she dared him to say something.
Kurt pushed himself off the wall. The muscle-bound cop put his hand on Kurt’s chest
to keep him in place. “Look, what you two got going on is way above my pay grade. You
need marital counseling or something. But for now, you’ll both need to steer clear of
each other