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“My brother asked your sister.”
“Noel?” her head turned toward me sharply. “How is she? Is she okay?”
“Far as I know, she’s fine,” I replied quickly. “Missin’ you, though.”
“I miss her, too,” she said, leaning back tiredly against the seat. “I thought that I’d be excited when I finally didn’t have to share a room with her anymore, but I really miss her.”
I nodded and watched out the windshield as five bikes came into view headed toward us. Lifting my fingers off the steering wheel, I waved at them as they passed.
“Are those your friends?” she asked, looking at them through the back window.
“Brothers, yeah.”
“Brothers?”
“In the MC.”
“Oh, right,” she looked at my cut and shook her head. “I forgot your family was part of all that.”
“Not sure how,” I said with a chuckle. “Ain’t exactly hidin’ it.”
“Where are we going?”
“Back to the clubhouse,” I replied, glancing at her. “We’ll grab some food first, though. Anythin’ sound good?”
She rattled off a fast food place so quickly that I smiled.
“I’m hungry,” she said ruefully. “Which is weird because my stomach is one big knot.”
“Baby’s hungry,” I replied. The words felt weird coming out of my mouth and I cleared my throat.
“I guess so.”
“You—” My voice cracked and I felt my ears heat in embarrassment. “Uh, you know what you’re havin’ yet?”
Esther shook her head. “No, but I heard the heartbeat yesterday.”
There was something in her voice that made me tense. I wasn’t sure what it was, just that it wasn’t good.
“Everything’s good, though?”
“Yeah,” she said, nodding. She didn’t look at me. “I think so.”
“That’s good.”
We were mostly silent for the rest of the drive. Esther became more fidgety the closer we got to town and by the time we’d pulled into the drive-thru she was visibly nervous. Her eyes darted from one place to the next, wide and worried, and she didn’t calm down until we were on the highway headed back to the clubhouse.
“I’m not used to all the noise anymore,” she said around a bite of her breakfast sandwich.
“You’ve been at the cabin all that time?” I asked, trying to sound like the answer didn’t matter.
“Until yesterday,” she replied, nodding. “We came into town for the doctor’s appointment.”
“That’s right.”
“Oh, I’ve seen this before,” she said, leaning forward as we pulled up to the club’s gate. “I didn’t know this was where the motorcycle club is.” She looked at the sign. “It says it’s a mechanic shop.”
“Got one of those, too,” I said, rolling down my window. “It’s where I work.”
