Chapter 14

Jake’s POV

I had been a complete dick to Kristen, and I knew it. 

To make matters worse, I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about that cinnamon coffee she had brought me earlier.

 I knew I should have gone out there and said something to her. 

I should have apologized for the way I’d been treating her, but my pride prevented me from doing that. 

I sighed and leaned back in my chair, wondering if at the heart of it, I wasn’t the great guy I had always thought I was. 

Was that why things with Daphne derailed so fast toward the end? I wondered. 

Maybe it had nothing to do with Noah and his birth. Maybe it had everything to do with me.

 I had spent the weeks and months following Daphne’s funeral thinking about those last few weeks before she had been deployed.

 They had been the most stressful and disheartening weeks of my life. 

Daphne and I had spent those last two weeks tiptoeing