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Jamie looked at her sharply and Clara said, “I’m sorry. I know this is all crazy and stressful for you, but you and Luke have two people running around Ivy Springs acting like a couple of idiots.”
“It’s annoying and embarrassing. If I didn’t care about Luke so much, I would just end the relationship and tell Alexis that she could have him.”
“No, you wouldn’t. The Jamie I know wouldn’t give up a fight that easy,” Clara said.
“You have no idea. It’s getting tiring. The other day I thought about packing everything up that I could fit in my car and disappearing in the middle of the night, and just tell you where I was.”
“Yet here you are.”
“I know,” Jamie groused.
Changing the subject, Jamie asked, “How are you feeling?”
“Pretty good. I’m a little surprised that I haven’t had morning sickness like I did with Zeke. I have an appointment with the doctor next week, so you’ll have to run the show for me,” Clara said.
“I’ll be happy to. I bet that Charlie is over the moon that she is going to have another little niece or nephew,” Jamie said.
“She hopes that it is a girl. She kept all of Luna’s cute baby clothes and things that she’ll give us.”
“That’ll come in handy. I’ll just buy you all of the diapers and wipes that the store has. I’ve heard that you can’t get too much of that.”
“That is the truth,” Clara said.
They looked around the café once more and locked the door. Jamie gave Clara and Zeke a quick hug and walked to her car, while the other two went over to Dillon’s store.
Jamie had just settled down to eat some homemade tacos, complete with lettuce, tomatoes, avocados, onions, and cheese, when her doorbell rang. She looked at one of her favorite meals disappointingly. She was half tempted to ignore the door and just eat. She was famished.
Sighing heavily, she decided that it might be important. Groaning loudly, she regretted her decision as soon as she peeked out her window to see who was standing there.
“What do you want?” she asked as the door swung open just enough to talk to the man standing on her porch.
“Can I come in?”
“Nope,” Jamie said.
“I bought you some flowers,” Ryan said, handing them to her.
She automatically took them and laid them on the couch.
“Thank you. Bye,” she said.
She started to close the door and Ryan said, “Wait.”
“What?”
“Please, just hear me out. I’m so sorry that I ever hurt you. I have regretted it from the moment that I did it. Please, give me another chance. I will never hurt you again,” Ryan begged. “I swear on everything that I hold holy that I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you.”
“It’s way too late for that. I wouldn’t have taken you back if you had come crawling on your knees five minutes after I got the note. Once bitten twice shy and all that. Second, I have feelings for someone else, and they are more powerful than anything that I ever felt for you,” Jamie said. “And while we are on that subject, leave Luke alone. You look like a pathetic twelve-year-old when you went to him, begging for him to break up with me.”
Ryan’s face hardened.
“You’re going to regret this You are making a huge mistake,” he said.
“It won’t be the first and probably won’t be the last,” Jamie said.
He glared at her for a minute and then walked away. Jamie shut and locked the door behind him.
She started to throw the flowers away, but then thought about it.
