JAKE’S P.O.V

I blinked once then twice, staring at Hayley in front of me and wondering if I had misheard.

“You what?”

I wasn’t proud of my response but I was convinced that I had misheard. Hayley was nowhere near ready to have a child, she had all but said so herself, she wanted to live first, she wanted to grow first.

She must have mistook my words for something else because her eyes grew dark and she stepped back from me. “You don’t have to be ...