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I nodded and tried not to appear too eager to reach the house. Once out of sight, I nearly sprinted for the deck. In the dining hall kitchen, I found Bridge stirring something in a bowl and Jonah draped on the fridge next to her.
“Seen Cricket?” I asked.
They shook their heads no and I left the kitchen, making my way to the main living. I spotted Ellie in there.
“Ellie!” I said a little too anxiously.
“What’s wrong, honey?”
“Oh nothing,” I said, trying to calm myself a little. “Have you seen Cricket? She wasn’t down at the stables this morning.”
I shifted my body back and forth.
Her facial expression dropped a moment but quickly picked back up, shielding herself. “Honey, you’ll probably be working with Drew and Pete today. Cricket’s gone into town unexpectedly with Ethan.”
The words “with Ethan” echoed through my head again and again. I nodded. “Thanks.”
I walked back into the dining hall and lowered myself on the bench; my head fell into my hands. I yanked off my cap and ran my fingers through my hair.
Chapter Twenty-Five
I worked the entire day with my eyes peeled for Cricket and even Ethan, but they never showed. That is, until dinner that night. I’d gone back to the trailer and showered just in case she showed up to dinner. I was determined to pull her aside and apologize for whatever I’d done. Seeing her in pain was eating me to my core, and knowing I was the one that caused it made me sick to my stomach.
Bridge, sporting a little bit bigger bump than the week before, sat next to me.
She sighed. “I look pregnant now.”
I laughed a little. “Yeah, I mean, kinda, I guess. It’s just this tiny little bulge. I thought you’d be a bit bigger than this, actually.”
“Dr. Harmon said he’s not that surprised and that first pregnancies take a while to show, especially in someone as slim as I.”
“Ah, I see.”
“So, uh, what’s going on with you today?” she whispered.
“Dude, I f’ed up royally.”
“What happened?” she asked, taking a sip of water.
“I don’t even know, to be honest. I said something to Cricket, you know, to push her, really, and she reacted completely differently than I thought she would.”
“What the hell did you say?”
“I told her that I thought she was Ethan because she was afraid to leave him.”
“What did she do when you said that?”
I turned toward my sister. “Bridge, she broke my heart, reacted like I’d slapped her. She was trying really hard not to sob and ran as fast as she could.”
“Damn, Spence, you really know how to push a girl.”
I rolled my eyes. “Thank you for that.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I don’t know. As soon as I can, I need to get her alone and try to convince her to let me apologize.”
Just then, yelling erupted from the living, and Bridge and I looked at one another before leaping up to see what was going on. We raced down the corridor where a small crowd had gathered. At the end of the hall, Jonah heard us coming and turned toward us. He immediately tucked Bridge behind him as if to protect her, which made me nervous.
