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“Leave,” I said for the second time.
He nodded eagerly, then got up and left.
“Big fan,” he muttered as he did.
“What the fuck are you doing back here?” Max snarled.
“What did you do with Toby?”
“Toby? Your little friend? Why the fuck are you asking me about a dead kid?”
I grabbed him by the front of his shirt, yanking him toward me. I let him see the blazing storm in my eyes and saw the fear that appeared in his. Fear and suspicious guilt.
“You know something, don’t you, you bastard?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He looked away, but I wasn’t about to let it go that easily.
“Tell me before I beat you black and blue throughout this entire room. And believe me when I say I’m fucking rich now, so I’ll get away with it.”
His eyes were wide for some time, and he swallowed hard when it became clear that I was serious.
“He’s dead,” he said, his eye flickering from nerves. “Trust me.”
“Why?”
He took a deep breath and squeezed his eyes shut as he practically squeaked out the words. “Because I know who killed him.”
21
CHARLOTTE
I sat on the toilet, staring at the test kit in horror.
Two lines. It was unmistakable. I was definitely pregnant.
Ivanna had given me this pregnancy test months ago as a joke because she knew how sexless I’d been for years.
“In case immaculate conception occurs,” she’d said, tossing it at me and laughing when I threw it back at her.
I checked the expiration date on the box again. Maybe it had expired or was wonky or something. But no, the expiration date wasn’t for another year.
“Holy shit.” I ran my hands through my hair, unable to believe I was in this predicament. That I had put myself in this predicament.
I’d gotten pregnant. I barely had sex a few times, and yet I was already pregnant. That seemed so unfair. Why the heck couldn’t I just catch a break?
Nah, there’s nothing unfair about this. You did this to yourself. This is what happens when you get drunk and have unprotected sex with a man you don’t even know.
Jesus, that stupid drunken night would haunt me for years. It had to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done, if not the dumbest.
And the dumbest thing was that I didn’t even think about the possibility of getting pregnant before now. I just assumed he used a condom and took steps to protect me because I didn’t remember anything about that night. I didn’t even think about Plan B the next day. That was how irresponsible I was. And that was why I was here.
Mom is going to kill me.Funnily enough, that was the first thing that occurred to me, and it made me laugh. I was a twenty-five-year-old woman who was scared that her mother was going to kill her for getting pregnant. Mom was already mad enough when she thought I had a boyfriend who was taking my attention away from her and the family, so what more when she eventually found out I was having a baby?
I didn’t even have two coins to scratch together.
Fuck. What the hell was I going to do now?
Visit a doctor and get an abortion.I suppose the answer was a no-brainer.I didn’t have the money or the time to take care of a child. Not to mention even thinking of telling Zane about it. Fuck. I’d just told him that he had a son. I didn’t have the heart to hide this one from him too. Even though I doubted he would receive the news well.
