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“What are you hiding?”
“She’s coming, Dad!” Caspar yelled out immediately, her younger brother completely ratting her out. He kept his gaze trained on her, not looking away from her eyes, and there was genuine fear on his face that caused her to pause for a moment… until she heard it.
He wasn’t alone!
A hand tugged on his sleeve with bright pink fingernail polish.
“You’ve got a girl in there?”Nicolette hissed in disbelief, pointing.
“You’re married!”Caspar retorted, pointing at her.
“And pregnant…” she muttered, looking away from his stunned face as both of them drew up in understanding at how bad this was about to be for her downstairs.
“Oh, my gosh… you’ve got to warn Luke,” Caspar urged softly. “Nic, he’s going to be furious!”
“Get your girl out of here because that will only make it worse.”
“I’MCOMINGUPTHERENOWYOUNGLADY…”
“Coming, Daddy…” she hollered – and swallowed heavily.
Making her way down the stairs, her knees trembling, she rounded the corner to see her parents standing there. Her father had his arms crossed over his chest, glaring at everything… while her mother looked at her with limpid, tearful, happy eyes.
“Baby, what’s…” her mother began – only to have her dad interrupt.
“A very poor choice of words, Mari…”
“Aeron, wait…”
“What’s this?” her father said bluntly, holding up the pregnancy stick.
“Plastic, chemicals, and a bit of urine?”
“Don’t get smart with me, young lady!”
“Can you please stop yelling so I can talk to you both?” Nicolette whispered nervously, feeling tears she had tried to hold back, suddenly running down her face. “Please?”
“What’s going on, baby?” her mother said.
“WRONG TERM, MARISOL!” her father snapped, glaring at her pointedly. “Are youactuallypregnant?”
“It’s a long story…” Nicolette hedged.
“No, it’s not! It’s a simple ‘yes’or ‘no’question!”
“Daddy…”
“’Yes’or ‘no’, Nicolette!”
“Yes,” she whispered, closing her eyes.
“And who is the father?” her dad said in an exceedingly quiet voice that was almost eerie.
She looked at him, seeing him standing there taking several deep breaths, his eyes closed and she knew he was trying to be patient… and failing.
“That’s what I want to talk to you about – and why I said it’s a long story.”
“So spit it out…”
