“I didn’t write this.”
“No.”
“But you told your attorney not to forward pregnancy information, didn’t you?”
He did not answer immediately.
Vanessa looked at him.
“Adrian?”
Finally:
“I told him Claire was using emotional claims to interfere with the divorce.”
I stared.
“So you created the filter.”
His face tightened.
“I thought you were trying to stop me from leaving.”
“Why?”
He looked down.
That question had bothered me for eight years.
Our marriage had problems.
Yes.
But Adrian’s withdrawal had been sudden.
Almost panicked.
He said:
“I had an overseas assignment coming.”
“I knew that.”
“You didn’t know the risk level.”
I frowned.
He continued:
“I believed there was a real possibility I wouldn’t come back.”
“So?”
“I convinced myself ending the marriage before deployment would be easier for you.”
