"Laurent!"
Dave couldn't hold back anymore. As soon as Laurent finished speaking, he shouted through gritted teeth,
"Do I even matter to you anymore, Laurent? Is your job—your career—the only thing you care about now?"
Laurent hadn't explicitly said she wanted to go, but the fact that she had brought it up to discuss with him meant she did. If she didn't want to go, she would have rejected Matthew outright when he first mentioned it. There would have been no need to come to Dave to talk it through.
Dave was furious—boiling with anger, heartache, and bitter disappointment.
After everything they'd been through this past year, they had finally reached some kind of stability. He had been planning to propose again, to remarry her, to give their little family of three the quiet, legitimate life they deserved. And now she drops this on him—a potential relocation to another city for an entire year.
A whole year. Not a month, not two.
