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“You’re upset. About Elsie and Hunter.”
Oh, dear Lord if only.If only!She longed for the simplicity of being pissy that her friend had hooked up with Hunter. It would be vastly lessimpossiblethan a pregnancy.
But hey, if it would offer her a reprieve with her sister, she’d play that game.
“Why?” Alaina asked. “Like you and Landry?”
“This isn’t about me and Landry.”
“You’re the only one that’s allowed to be bitter and heartbroken for years, Fia?”
“I don’t want to talk about that.”
“You never do. It’s been years, you slept with him, or whatever, and you’re mad about it.”
Fia scowled. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Maybe I don’t. But it’s because you won’t tell anybody. And that’s your own fault, Fia. If you feel isolated it’s because you won’t talk to anyone.”
And the irony was galling, because she currently had quite the secret. But she didn’t care.
She wasn’t in the mood to be fair. She wanted to be left alone.
She had eaten half the piece of pie when Sawyer Garrett held up his red solo cup and hit the side of it with his fork.
His wife was standing beside him, laughing. Evelyn was from the city, and the fact that she got along so well with any of the rednecks around here always amazed Alaina.
“We have a bit of good news to share,” he said.
“The first bit is that Evelyn is expecting a baby.”
A cheer went up from the crowd. Alaina felt the pie turn to sawdust in her mouth.
“The second bit of news is that Hunter and Elsie are getting married.”
Married.
Elsie was getting married.
Evelyn was expectinga baby.
So was Alaina.
And Alaina was...having a baby.
A baby.
She’d thought of words likepregnantandpregnancythis whole time and she had never once thought the word...
Baby.
Then her stomach turned and what she already had swallowed started to come right back up.
She threw the plate down on the nearest chair and she ran. Ran away from the group and hoped that nobody noticed. Ran into the darkness, to the edge of the trees, and cast up her accounts in the bushes.
She fell to her knees, sweat and tears on her face.
And then she heard heavy footsteps behind her.
