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Cadi's frown deepened.

Gray continued.

"You were telling him that you didn't like lying to me. That ifhedidn't come clean soon, you would tell me yourself."

Cadi's brows knitted together, her confusion deepening.

"And?"

Gray exhaled slowly, as if the words physically pained him.

"Callum looked frustrated. He said he needed more time. And then you—" He hesitated. "You put your hand on his arm and said,Butthis baby is yourfamily.And I think we should tellGraysoon."

Cadi's stomach plummeted.

Gray's voice cracked.

"You were six months along with Tomos."

She staggered back a step, her mind spinning.

No. No, no, no.

She remembered that conversation.

But not like that.

Gray let out a bitter laugh, rubbing his temples as if the memory physically hurt him.

"Regan sat on it for years. And then... four months ago, she told me."

Cadi's breath hitched.

"Why?"

Gray closed his eyes.

"She had just broken up with Jon . She had come down to see me before clinic, you know how she is." Regan's secret crush on Gray was not a secret to anyone in the family. She adored him. But Gray always treated her like a little sister." I was consoling her...and she just—she let it slip. She felt guilty. And she... she thought maybe you would be happier with Callum."

Cadi's eyes flashed dangerously.

"And you believed her."

Gray flinched.

"I didn't want to, Cadi. But I kept thinking about it. I keptseeingit. You and Callum. How easy it was for him to be there when I wasn't."

He let out a broken laugh.

"And then I saw you just as you were about to step into the consultant's room. Your hair gave you away. And I—" He swallowed. "I made it look like I was going to kiss Venessa."

Cadi's stomach twisted in disgust.

Gray ran a hand through his hair, voice wrecked.

"I was wild with jealousy. In a lot of pain. I wanted you to hurt like I was hurting."

His eyes met hers, desperate, shattered.

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