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“Didn’t you tell me he called you nonstop all week?” Addie said dryly.
I groaned. “That doesn’t mean anything.”
“Why doesn’t it? You’re being a little unreasonable here, Katie,” Addie scolded.
I shrugged. “Maybe so, but I can’t help feeling in my heart that he’s not that into me. That no matter whether Toby is telling the truth or not, Adam isn’t in love with me the way that I’m in love with him, and that’s the end of it.”
Addie hugged me again. “I guess if you really feel that way, then it is the end of it.”
“It’s going to be so hard to see him at the next doctor’s appointment,” I groaned.
“I know,” Addie said sympathetically. “And you’ll have to deal with him for the next what, eighteen years?”
“Don’t remind me,” I muttered. “I’m just done with men, Addie, I swear. I’m just going to focus on my babies and forget about Adam and Toby and all other men.”
“That sounds like a plan,” my best friend agreed. “In the meantime, do you want some breakfast?”
My stomach grumbled. I was slowly getting over the morning sickness, sooner than I’d expected, and I was starving.
“Yes, please. But I don’t want to have to look like a person, so can we order in?”
“Absolutely,” Addie said, pulling out her phone. We ordered breakfast burritos for delivery and waited for them to arrive, chatting idly about Addie’s dating adventures.
I hated that I was barely listening. All I could think about was Adam, how he’d looked so hurt right before the anger took over his expression. He’d looked stricken, like I’d hit him in the stomach by believing what Toby had said.
But then he’d gotten so defensive... how could I trust him? After Toby, how could I trust any man? Was I punishing Adam for Toby’s mistakes?
I didn’t know for sure. All I knew was that I needed to focus on myself and my babies. Maybe love just wasn’t in the cards for me.
Chapter 24
Adam
Istood in my office, looking over the airport. I had the best view in the building, up on the fifteenth floor, and I loved to watch the planes going back and forth. It was a reminder of all my success, all my hard work.
But in that moment, I ’felt deflated, and that was saying something, because I’d just closed a huge deal with a major airline, the one that Gray had taken over for me when I’d left Los Angeles to go to Katie, my girl. Not my girl.I was making more money than I ever could have dreamed. It felt like none of it mattered, though, without Katie on my arm.
There was no doubt that I was still angry with her, but I could understand why she didn’t trust me, after what had happened with Toby. I could understand her motivations, and to be honest, I hadn’t exactly given my all to our relationship.
Relationship? What was I thinking?
Was I falling in love with her? What was happening to me? ’I’d never felt so close to someone, so connected. Maybe it was because she was carrying my babies, but I didn’t think so. There was more to it than that.
I realized that she meant something to me after we’d first met. At that Christmas party, I’d been bored out of my mind.I hadn’t sought out Katie because she was Toby’s girlfriend. In fact, I didn’t even know, at first, that she was with him. I thought she was a friend of one of my cousins.
I didn’t start talking to her because I was trying to get under Toby’s skin. I’d talked to her because of how gently she looked at Colin, how gorgeous she was. I loved the way her nose turned up when she laughed, how her brown eyes sparkled when Colin was cheeky. I loved the freckles that marched across the bridge of her nose.
I loved so many things about her, but could I actually be in love with her? Was I capable of that? I never thought that I was, but maybe things had changed. MaybeIhad changed.
I pushed those thoughts out of my head as Gray came into my office. Gray was a bit taller than I was with dark hair graying at the temples. In his suit, he embodied the values of my airline—elegant, impeccable, stealth.
“Congratulations on the acquisition,” he said warmly, clapping a hand on my shoulder. “You’re doing amazing, Adam. This place has grown so much since you bought it.”
Adam smiled. “Thanks, Gray.”
“You look tired,” Gray said kindly.
I laughed, catching a reflection of myself in the window. I looked like shit. I was hungover from the night before and I had barely slept. “Yeah, I need to go home and get some rest.”
