I mean, why else would he show up asking if I was pregnant and trying to drag me to the hospital? Like, seriously?

He'd hurt me before, yeah, but this? This was next level. One sentence, and he'd totally crushed me.

But I wasn't about to bail on my job just because we split. Lucky for me, I had some field work coming up, so I could dodge the office without raising eyebrows.

Three days into field work, Alice called. No clue if she knew about the breakup, ...