Learning that Julia Bluen was pregnant was news that left his emotions most intricately tangled. He was happy for his elder brother and for his sister-in-law. But deep within, a pang of pain surged through him. That abnormal, secret crush, those suppressed feelings that couldn't be erased, caused him unbearable heartache. The two people he loved the most—one was about to become a father, the other a mother—how could his heart not ache? Still, he took action.