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Molly smiled. She was thrilled for them. She looked up as Anita came to greet them and show them to a table.
Gene raised an eyebrow at her, and she shrugged. “Do you mind if I join you?”
“We’d love it,” said Rita.
Molly chuckled. “All I’m doing is getting in the way here, so I might as well sit and have a cup of coffee with you.”
It was good to catch up with them. They’d always been a part of her life. They knew her history with Marcos, and they weren’t afraid to tell her how happy they were that things were working out this time around.
She waited as Anita returned and poured them each a mug of coffee.
“Tell him I’d be more than happy to help once he gets up and running,” said Gene.
Molly smiled. “I will. That’d be awesome.”
Rita laughed. “It’d be wonderful for me.”
Gene groaned. “Apparently I get under my wife’s feet a little too often now I’m not flying anymore.”
Molly smiled. “That can’t be easy for either of you.”
Gene shrugged. “Don’t ever expect life to be easy—or fair. If you can manage that, then I reckon you can be happy.”
Rita nodded. “He’s right, and I think he might have just given you the recipe for a happy marriage, too.” She smiled at Molly. “That is where you and Marcos are headed this time, isn’t it?”
“I hope so.” She took a sip of her coffee. She wanted him to just hurry up and ask her. She closed her eyes. Oh, no. Here it came again. “Would you excuse me?”
She got up and made her way as quickly as she could to the bathroom. Thank goodness she had her doctor’s appointment in an hour. She needed to take something to get this cleared up.
When she went back out, both Rita and Gene were smiling—weirdly.
“Sorry about that. What’s up?”
Rita winked at her. “We know. I was just like you are. It was the coffee.”
Molly gave her a puzzled look. “You’ve had this too?”
Gene laughed. “Oh, yeah, she had it really bad.”
“Did you not get it?”
Gene laughed again. “I’ve never known a guy who did. Don’t worry, though, they reckon it only lasts for the first few months. It was the first three for you, wasn’t it Rita?”
“Three months?” Molly was horrified. This had been going on for a few weeks, and she’d had more than enough of it already.
Rita was watching her carefully. “Shush, Gene.”
Gene laughed. “If the thought of morning sickness is going to scare you, Moll, you’d better toughen up. It’s nothing compared to childbirth.”
Molly stared at them, trying to process what Gene had just said.
Rita put a hand on her arm. “I’m sorry, Molly. You didn’t know, did you?”
Molly shook her head.
Gene covered his eyes with his hand. “Dammit. I’m sorry, Molly.”
She felt as if she was moving—and thinking—in slow motion. “It’s okay. It’s not that.”
