“I’m the one who got expelled from school before I could do my leaving cert. I’m the one with fuck-all in the line of qualifications. He didn’t do that to me. I did that to me.” Blowing out a ragged breath, I hissed, “And I’m the one who’s taken the only person who’s ever genuinely loved me down with me. Yeah, Aoife’s pregnant, and not only does she have to deal with that alone, while I’m holed up here like the pathetic fuckup I am, but she also has to do it with the label that comes with having my baby.”