Chapter 64

"Helen! Hellen!!"

She heard Darin yelling her name from their private living room a few weeks later. She had just returned from work and was in her bathroom taking a shower. 

Her hands stilled. She wondered why he could be shouting like that: he had never done such before. And again, it was earlier than when he was supposed to return from work.

"Helen!" He burst into the bathroom. "Why are you taking this?" In his hand were strips of Helen's contraceptive pills.

"Oh my God!" she muttered under her breath. She had forgotten to pack the pills away after taking it in the morning. She hadn't even remembered until now.

"Helen, why are you taking contraceptives without my knowledge?" He asked again. 

Heart pounding in her chest, she turned off the tap. She was trying to decide how best to react to the situation at hand. 

Darin returned home at noon to retrieve a file he needed for a meeting later in the day. After retrieving the sai