NICOLE

Wrong.

Roman does try to stop me. In fact, he drags me right back into the room. I see despair dripping from his eyes, and the sight of it scares me.

I've never seen him this way before.

"Don't give me that shit!" he exclaims. "You think I don't know you're just saying that to hurt me? You don't really mean anything you're saying!"

"What do you know about any of that?" I retort. "You claim to know me so well, yet you think it would've been better to keep Esmeralda's pregnancy ...