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Someone had to comfort the poor bastard.
CHAPTER THREE
ABBY
“Ican’t do this.” Iburied my face in my palms, elbows resting on my bump. “This is...just the worst timing in the world.”
“I know,” Chrissy cooed, stroking my hair. “There’s never a good time for an ex.”
“Never a good ex to have.” Cheri poured me raspberry leaf tea into my rainbow cup and pushed it in my direction. “The question is, was he a good ex?”
“And how well does the ex kiss?” Analise asked, leaning forward over her arms as the girls gathered around the kitchen table where I sat with my back to the room.
Never sit where you can’t see everything that’s happening, even if it doesn’t interest you right now,Ryker Tran’s voice echoed inside my head, the scant training the twins started already embedded in my psyche.
Because you never know when it will matter,Kai’s voice overlaid his brother’s in my head.
My baby daddies. Well, they were supposed to be before the unit hit a catastrophic point and we lost them both. I never found out who the actual father was. The boys didn’t care, and I didn't either. Now they were gone...that mattered even less. All that mattered was that I didn’t have them anymore.
A piece of paper meant nothing at all.
Live in the present,Kai said silently, patting my hair in a memory I’d thought long buried.
Not in the past. Learn the lessons and move on,Ryker finished his brother’s thought.
I blinked at the tears that paired with the faintest whisper of a kiss to my cheek, but it was just Chrissy stroking my hair.
And what lesson have I learned here?
Oh, that’s right. That nothing is permanent, and loving a soldier sucks.
Horribly.
I clenched my teeth and forced a smile, bringing myself back to the running line of questioning from the girls and decided to cut it off before it hit a critical point inside me, and I exploded in a mass of goop and excess grief.
Not a good visual to have on Christmas Day.
