Her response was predictably defensive, but rather than blast back at her, Aaron raised his hands -- not up, not defensive -- to either side, palms out and placating. "I didn't say that," he told her, voice still flat. If anything, it was mirroring more closely the dullness of the post-returned Aaron that Kay had had to endure for some time up to and around Cassie's birth. "I'm just... it's not... I don't know what to do."
He hadn't meant for that truth to come out. It was too vulnerable a position to reveal to the woman, given that it had been her loss primarily at this stage in the game. He ought to be supporting her, oughtn't he? Yet here he was. He couldn't take the words back, but he could at least square his shoulders and clamp down on the pained expression that had managed to leak with the admission.
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21/5/14 03:30 (UTC)He hadn't meant for that truth to come out. It was too vulnerable a position to reveal to the woman, given that it had been her loss primarily at this stage in the game. He ought to be supporting her, oughtn't he? Yet here he was. He couldn't take the words back, but he could at least square his shoulders and clamp down on the pained expression that had managed to leak with the admission.