'Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't quite finished processing all this yet. Clearly giving up my career for a baby I didn't ask for has no importance at all...' Katie was shouting again. Much like when she had shouted at Angelina. Not really at Angie, or Adrian, but at the universe in their general direction. 'You get to keep right on playing, and picking up birds, and going to poker games and throwing wild parties with Miles and I'll be the one sitting here at home with a bobbin nipping at my tit! I don't want this Adrian! I can't do this! I'm not ready to- my mum...' but she broke there and fell silent, letting her tears say what she could not.
Above everything, Katie feared dying like her mother and leaving a child alone in the world. Even if Adrian was around, Katie had seen how sad her father had been before his own untimely death, and though she had never said it before, Katie loved Adrian too much to do that to him.