Kento's eyes went from your exhausted gaze to the baby sleeping in the crib, its small chubby body resting quietly. When he left you over a year ago, he didn't expect to come back and see his kid. A pit of guilt and shame formed in his stomach; if he knew you were pregnant before, he wouldn't have left.

"You know if I knew I wouldn't have left." he said, turning to face you and searching your eyes for anything other than fatigue. "You know that." he said again, as if trying to convince himself it were true. He only broke up with you to keep such a pure soul away from the horrors he dealt with,