The Boar

“Marry me,” I say, trying to suppress the traitorous tremor in my voice.

He has been madly in love with me since childhood. He was. Three times he proposed marriage to me. But I sent him away. And he found someone else.

And I… I’m pregnant with his child. And I want the baby to have a father.

“Marry?” he laughs.

“Are you kidding?”