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We ate in silence for a bit until, out of nowhere, he requested, “Tell me about your brand.”
“What do you want to know?”
“How did it start?”
“With a shop on Etsy.”
“You mean the one I told you to open for years?”
“Are you trying to say I’m successful because of you?”
“You’re successful because you’re passionate about everything you set your mind to. I always knew you’d make all your dreams come true.”
“What about you?”
“What about me?”
“Did all your dreams come true?”
Another moment of shock tore through me when he shared, “Not yet, but ask me again after our baby is born.”
I grabbed my stomach, suddenly feeling queasy. “Ugh, I think I’m going to be sick.” Hauling ass to the bathroom, I was on my knees in front of the toilet, hurling into the bowl before I could help it.
Ledger was behind me within seconds, holding my wet hair away from my face. He rubbed my back the entire time I hurled up all the food I just ate. We stayed there with my cheek on the seat for what felt like hours but was probably only a few minutes.
“You okay?” he asked, still caressing my back.
“So much for pizza being on the approved menu. Your kid seems to hate food. You can go now. I’m humiliated enough.”
“This isn’t the first time I’ve seen you throw up.”
“Don’t remind me. To this day, I can’t even smell cinnamon.”
“I told you not to down that bottle of Aftershock.”
“Well, you were fucking Denise or Stephanie or whatever her name was, and alcohol was the only thing I had for comfort.”
“I left her to take care of you.”
“Yeah, and then she hated me for the rest of the year.”
“My baby needed me.”
All in one breath, he spoke with conviction…
“And this time, I’m referring to you.”
Sixteen
Hazel
“Ledger!” I hollered, driving the golf cart up to the stables where he was feeding the horses on his property.
He glanced at me. “You need to be in my bed.”
I ignored his double innuendo. “I can’t find my laptop or cell phone. Do you know—”
“I have them.”
