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“I think you should leave.”
“The hell I will. Ask yourself this. Is this because of Cliff?”
Saylor shook her head and walked into the kitchen.
“Is it?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Is Monk the kind of guy who wouldn’t want you to have a life of your own? Would he have told you not to become a pilot like Cliff did?”
“No, but Cliff didn’t either.”
“Right. You were pregnant, and then a year later, pregnant again, and then a mom. But you’re still a mom, Saylor, and you made it happen. You wanna know what I think?”
“You haven’t started telling me yet?”
Poppy shook her head. “You two deserve each other.” Her friend grabbed her bag along with the packet of unpopped popcorn that she’d brought with her, and stalked out of the house. Saylor jumped when Poppy slammed the front door behind her.
SHE’D CHECKED her phone every minute for the last two hours, waiting for some kind of word back from Monk. She’d called him shortly after Poppy left, and when the call went straight to voicemail, she left a message asking him to call her as soon as he could. “I have a lot to tell you,” she said before ending the call.
Two hours wasn’t a long time, but she wouldn’t be able to shake her feeling of dread until she was able to talk to him. She’d decided that she was going to be as honest with him as possible and tell him she couldn’t explain why she hadn’t told him what she was doing until now.
Since she couldn’t concentrate enough to do anything including cook, she took Sierra and Savannah to a local pizza place. When they begged her to stop on the way home so they could see Aunt Ava and their cousin, Saylor did.
“Are you okay?” Ava asked after they’d been there a half-hour.
“I’m fine. Why?”
“You’ve looked at your phone about once a minute since you got here.”
“I’m sorry,” she muttered, putting it in her back pocket.
“Don’t apologize, tell me what’s going on.”
“I’m waiting to hear back from Monk.”
“Do you know where he is?” Razor asked.
Saylor’s eyes scrunched. “At the hospital?”
“Nope. Doc said he took off a few hours ago, and they haven’t heard from him since.”
“Is he required to be there every minute?”
Razor sat down next to her. “Doc also said that he and Merrigan let the pilot cat out of the bag.”
Saylor’s cheeks flushed, her skin felt like there were a thousand prickles trying to break through from the inside out, and she was sure she was about to be sick to her stomach. She couldn’t even look at her brother or sister-in-law, especially when her eyes filled with tears.
“I’ll go check on Sam and the girls,” said Ava, leaving Saylor and Razor alone.
“You okay?”
“Do you really think the two are related?” she asked.
“You do.”
She did. Razor was right.
