The Best Worst Thing: An Intimate Romance of Infertility, Betrayal, and Second Chances

by Lauren Okie

“Hey, Nicole?” She turned around. “Just so we’re clear,” he said, “you’re the one who’s out of Gabe’s league.”

“You know how when you read, you’re just kind of floating? Like, you can feel your legs under the covers and your hands on the pages, but you’re not quite there? You’re halfway between your own bed and some other world, and everything blends together, and you kind of just … hover? You’re kind of just … nowhere?”

Nobody wants to hear about pain they can’t make go away.”

“What have I ever done,” he said, “to make you think I needed you to be anything other than exactly who you are?”