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“Carys...” I have no words of wisdom. Nothing left to say to fight for us because I’m so fucking confused. What just happened?
She turns and walks away without looking back, and I just stand there, dumbstruck, watching her. Trying to figure out where we went wrong.
I shutmy bedroom door and slide down it until I’m sitting on the floor in a sobbing heap.
I just tore his heart out and decimated mine in the process.
And I don’t know if I’ll ever recover.
I’m not sure how long I sit like that, but eventually a knock yanks me out of my desperation. “Go away,” I tell whoever is dumb enough to be bothering me right now.
“CC, I need you,” Emerson cries.
I immediately stand up and open the door to find Em on the other side, looking an awful lot like I must at the moment. “Em, what happened?”
“What happened to you?” she laughs out on a scary sob, then drops down on my bed and wipes her tears. “You wanna go first?”
I shake my head. “Nope. Your turn.” I sit down next to Em, then lie back to mirror her.
She turns her head to the side, close enough that I can smell the minty mouthwash on her breath. “I’m pregnant.”
“What?” Nothing else comes to me. No words of comfort. Just complete shock.
She nods. “We found out this morning. I’ve missed my last two periods, so Linc ran out and got me a test today. He actually bought several of them. And they all said the same damn thing. Two pink lines or one pink word—Pregnant.” She sits up and smacks the bed. “And why the fuck are they all pink? Do they think that’s a soothing color? Seriously? What the fuck?”
I sit up and stare at her, still shocked. “Pregnant?”
“Yeah, you’re gonna need to get past that word because it gets worse.” She grabs a scrap of green lace from my nightstand and wipes her face with it. “Linc asked me to marry him.”
“Oh, holy shit.” Yup. That’s all I got.
She nods again.
“Did you say yes?” I just blew up my relationship with the love of my life, and one of my best friends is getting to live out my dream. Karma is a fucking bitch, and so am I for thinking about myself instead of Emerson.
She blinks the tears away from her lashes. “I think I did.”
Oh wow. This just keeps getting worse. “Oh, honey. You think? What does that mean?” I hug her to me, and she leans her head against mine.
“He had all these good points. Like I’d be on his medical plan. And I could get his benefits if something happened to him. Which I yelled at him for even thinking. Like what the fuck, CC? I told him he isn’t even allowed to put that thought into the universe. I can’t handle that too.” The tears come back, followed by the snot. “I told him yes.”
Oh. My. God.
“Umm... okay. Did you mean to say yes?”
“Maybe?” She laughs. Okay. Good. Laughing, I can handle.
“Well, I think you need to decide that pretty soon, babe. That’s a big answer if you’re not sure.” I have no idea if this is good advice. What would Daphne tell me?
“I think Linc loves me more than I love him, CC. But I do love him. I mean, that’s okay, right? My mom always says she loved my dad more than he loved her, so she wasn’t surprised when he left. If he loves me more, he’ll never leave me like that.” Her navy-blue eyes are so heavy... so sad. I don’t know how to answer her.
“Em, do you want to marry him? Can you imagine your life without him in it?” And now, my first tear falls because I can’t imagine my life without Cooper in it. Not after months of having him, even if he was a country away. Sometimes more than a country... But my choice is for him. He deserves more.
“Right?”
I look at Emerson, who obviously just asked a question that I completely missed.
Shit.
