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She looked almost as stunned as I’d felt when I’d overheard Mason. “What?”
I nodded. “Yep. And I’d have been clueless about it if I hadn’t overheard Mason telling his fiancée that Mila had moved into Vaughn’s.”
Her eyes narrowed. “Who the hell is Mila?”
I shrugged, trying to not seem as broken up about the whole thing as I really was. “I have no clue.”
“So you don’t know that it’s another woman. Maybe Mila is his sister—”
I loved Morgan for trying to make me feel better, but I’d already tried to come up with a good explanation for what’d happened, and there just wasn’t one. “For starters, Vaughn is an only child. And if he isn’t doing something with Mila, he should’ve told me she moved in. When I talked to him, he never said a word. To make matter worse, I knew I heard a female voice calling out his name when I called him later that day. When I asked who it was, he lied and said it was the TV, and then promptly ended the call.”
“What an asshole!” she shrieked.
“It’s not a big deal. I mean, it’s crappy that he lied, but we weren’t committed to each other or in love. It wasn’t serious, so it’s not as if I could have expected anything else. I was stupid to have thought it could be anything at all. Lesson learned.” I was such a liar, liar, pants on fire. I had been committed to Vaughn. I’d almost used the L-word with him. And our relationship had felt incredibly serious to me. But no way in hell was I ever going to say any of those things aloud. Not after what happened. My heart couldn’t take it.
“You need to take a pregnancy test.”
“I’ll pick one up soon,” I quickly agreed, knowing she was right but also knowing I was in no rush to take a test because then I’d have to deal with Vaughn when it came up positive.
“If you’re pregnant, I’ll be there every step of the way,” she vowed. “We can raise the baby together.”
If she’d made the same promise a few months ago, I would’ve cried and thanked my lucky stars. But my best friend was forgetting a very big presence in her life, and how he’d react to her helping to raise my child made me snort. “So my baby would have two mommies and a Gage? I bet Mr. I don’t want children would love that.”
“If he didn’t understand my commitment to you, I wouldn’t want to be with him anyway. Besides, it wouldn’t affect him since he wouldn’t be living with us. Obviously, I’d still be with him, but he wouldn’t be in the house for late-night feedings or diaper changing.”
I arched a brow. “You know you don’t have to pack it up and move out of Gage’s if I’m pregnant, right?”
“Of course I wouldn’t have to,” she agreed. “Besides, it’s a moot point. Now that Kerri has been caught and there’s no more threat to me, I’ll be moving back to the condo. Although if you’re pregnant, we should probably upgrade to a house…”
“Morgan!” I snapped in an attempt to stop her verbal snowball before it picked up more speed as it rolled down the hill. “Are you out of your mind?”
“What? I’m just saying that having a house with a yard would be smart if there’s a baby on the way. The condo is only a two-bedroom, and there’s no outdoor space. A baby will need outdoor time, and if we’re going to be outside anyway, we should get a dog. And obviously, if there’s a dog, we need a yard. It’s just common sense.”
It was official. My best friend had lost her mind. “I mean this in the nicest way possible. Morgy, you are nuts. First, I don’t want a dog right now. Second, and far more importantly, Gage Ryan is not going to sit with his thumb up his ass while you roll your suitcases out of his house and into our condo.”
She didn’t look convinced. “As amazing as he’s been about having me there, it was a spur of the moment decision for him. I haven’t lost sight of the fact that it was never meant to be permanent.”
“I don’t think that’s true. I mean, maybe at the start there was no guarantee that it would be permanent, but I think you’re well past the point of living apart at this point.” If only I could say the same thing, then maybe I wouldn’t be so worried about taking a pregnancy test.
“We’re perfect together, and I love being with him, but I don’t want to have unrealistic expectations. He’s an amazing man and an incredible boyfriend, but since he’s never told me he loves me, I’m almost afraid to think too hard about what kind of longevity we might have.”
