How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Stone, think about this," Hema said. "Turn your back on me if you want, because I'll have no use for you. But don't turn your back on these children. I won't ask you again."
[…] What she didn't see was any recognition of the infants as being connected to him. He spoke like a man who'd just been hit on the head. "Hema, I don't understand who… why they are here… why Mary is dead." (1.10.50-51)
Hema seems to think that all Stone wants is to abandon someone, and he'll be satisfied—so she offers up herself in exchange for the boys, who need their father. But Stone still doesn't know how Sister Mary Joseph Praise got pregnant; he might be thinking that she had a secret boyfriend (besides him). That makes it easier for him to abandon the babies.
Quote #8
At last he met her gaze, refusing to look down at the infants, and what he said wasn't what she wanted to hear. "Hema, I don't want to set eyes on them, ever." (1.10.53)
Good thing destiny had other plans for Thomas Stone, or we wouldn't have a novel to read. At this moment, Stone truly does reject the children and abandon them, knowingly. By stating that he doesn't ever want them in his sight, he is banishing them from his life. But they'll be back. Oh, they'll be back.
Quote #9
"You heard me, Stone, you killed her," Hema said, raising her voice so that she drowned out every other sound. He flinched as the words lashed into him. It pleased her. She felt no pity. Not for a man who wouldn't claim his children. He pushed the swinging door so hard it shrieked in protest.
"Stone, you killed her," she shouted after him. "These are your children." (1.10.61-62)
Hema doesn't even seem to be trying to bring Stone back at this point. Now she's just punishing him for abandoning his poor, defenseless sons just after their mother abandoned them by dying. Even the door seems to judge him, shrieking in protest as he walks out of the hospital, never to return.