Chapter One-Hundred and Seven

Lauren's POV

I did not notice that I had let go of Shirley’s hands out of shock until she raised her hands to her face and started to cry harder. I stared at her, trying to turn her words in my head into something else so that what she had just said would not be true.

“Jameson?” I asked, my voice low and soft as if he was right in front of the door, listening in on us. “He…he made you lose your baby?”

“He didn’t make me lose the baby, Lauren.” She shook her head, sniffling. “He killed the baby. I felt it all. The pain of having the growing child taken out of me, and the knowledge of who had done it.”

I had made a big mistake. I had messed it all up. I had brought Jameson right to their doorstep, and I had agreed to mend his relationship with Conrad.

I turned back to Shirley with a frown on my face. “Does Conrad know what his father did?” I asked.

Shirley was quick to shake her head in response to my question, almost as if Conrad’s knowledge of what his