He came back to see her one last time.
She was standing there, carrying the child he was never supposed to know about.
The woman beside her stepped forward and gave him a warning:
“Walk away. You have ten seconds.”
But he didn’t move.
He looked at the woman he still loved, then at the life she was carrying, and asked one question:
“Or what?”
That was the moment she broke.
Because deep down, she didn’t want him to leave.
She wanted him to fight.