“Did you ever think about having children with her?” I clear my throat and add quickly. “Just FYI, there is no wrong answer.And no answer is okay, too.”
He breathes quietly. “Elena was so young when we got married. I didn’t have children on the brain in a serious way. I alwaysassumed we would have them one day, but I suppose I was thinking about it like it was strictly business. Legacies and heirs,like you said.”
“But then Elena told me she didn’t want children. So we were at an impasse. I didn’t push her too hard. I was immature,prideful. I thought that, if I changed my own mind, it would be easy to change hers when the time came.”
“Did she say why she didn’t want kids?”
Dmitri falls silent for a bit. I worry that I’ve pushed this conversation too far and I’m ab
