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Eden giggles as she points to my face. “This is going to be fun.”
“Fun?” I snarl. “What about my situation spells fun?”
“Hey now.” Soleil wraps an arm around my waist. “Don’t snarl at your friends because you’re heartbroken.”
“Who says I’m heartbroken?”
“I do!” Ashlyn raises her hand.
“I second!” Moon raises her hand.
“I third!” Eden raises her hand.
Soleil’s arm squeezes my waist. “It’s unanimous.” She leads me back to the kitchen table and I slump into a chair.
“You can’t say whether I’m heartbroken. It’s my heart. I say when it’s broken or not.”
“She’s playing the stubborn card. What a surprise,” Eden grumbles.
“And just after her Bragg woman t-shirt arrived, too,” Moon adds.
“I am not a Bragg woman. I will never be a Bragg woman.”
“Except your last name is Bragg,” Ashlyn points out.
“How many times do I have to tell people I didn’t change my last name when I married Elder?”
Soleil claps her hands. “We’re getting off topic here.”
I open my mouth and she slashes her hand at me. “No. You won’t ask what the topic is. You know darn well we’re here to find out what Elder did.”
“Exactly.” Eden nods. “If Elder hurt you, I’m going to have Miller kick his ass.”
Moon motions toward me. “Of course, Elder hurt her. She was bawling when we arrived.”
“I wasn’t bawling.”
No one listens to me.
“But was what Elder did enough to warrant a beating from Miller?” Eden asks.
“Duh. A man makes a woman cry, he should get a beating,” Moon says. “I can’t believe we’re discussing this.”
I slam my hands down on the table. “Elder did nothing except claim to love me!”
“Dammit.” Moon digs another ten-dollar bill out of her pocket. “You’re making me poor.”
“Correction. Your inability to understand our stubborn friend is making you poor,” Ashlyn says as she pockets the money.
“Stop making bets about me,” I hiss at them.
“We have to do something to liven this up. It could be hours before your obstinate ass caves and tells us what the real problem is,” Moon says.
“Hold on!” Soleil shouts. “Elder said he loves you? Why did you kick him out of your house if he loves you?”
Eden raises her hand. “I know!” I glare at her and she smiles. “Harmony’s scared.”
“You’re one to talk. You wouldn’t give Miller a chance because you were afraid of becoming your mother.”
