Her brows twitched into a miniscule frown. “How do we know it won’t?” There wasn’t any heat in her tone, no anger, just a sense of calm rationality. Wherever that came from, she was grateful for it. This wasn’t the sort of conversation she wanted to end in a shouting match. “The government could try and pull another raid, like they did the first time. If they got any sense that I was pregnant, I don’t know if I’d be able to defend myself.” Her eyes searched his. Put yourself in Elliot’s place.
The disappointment in Evan’s tone made it hard to hold his gaze. She let out a breath and gave his hand a squeeze. “I don’t know.” And that was an honest answer. Her brain wouldn’t even let her think the word ‘abortion’, so maybe her subconscious was trying to tell her something.
She knew that he wanted kids, but she’d also made him promise to be careful. To wait until they were ready and actually trying. Accidental pregnancies always happened at the worst possible times. Or worst possible decades, in the case of zombies. Rae popped into her head, then. The other woman didn’t see her pregnancy as anything negative. But Leah couldn’t help but notice how vulnerable her friend was the farther along she got.
Leah released his hand so that she could put both of hers on the chair’s armrests and stand up. “I don’t know,” she said again. “If I’d known years ago that the world would turn into what it is now? I don’t know if I’d have brought Mari into it. Seems a little unfair, making that little girl live in a nightmare world. Dead people eating other people…”
It wasn’t just her opinion that mattered here, though. This time, Leah realized that and recognized it. “Do you really want this child?”