"People do stupid shit all the time," she bit back almost immediately, as if she'd had the retort waiting on the tip of her tongue. "And you have a particularly strong track record where that's concerned."
Nicole knew that she was being harsh, but at the moment she was too furious to regret the things that were coming out of her mouth. She knew, she knew a normal person wouldn't take this so strongly, would sit down, ask him calmly what the meaning of it all was instead and talk it out rationally. Nick was not a normal person. She was a person who knew her boyfriend, who knew his track record in relationships,--in fucking life, for the love of Merlin, it wasn't like Martin had the most pristine reputation ever--and it scared her. It was like every day she was waiting for something like this to happen, for the bottom to fall out.
She'd been talking about kids with him just a week ago. She had been beginning to wonder if she had been wrong in her perception of him all along. And then this showed up on the newsstands and all of a sudden it was back to square one. Bloody hell, it was always something.
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