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I shut my door with an unnecessary slam and stomp up her walk.
“If you’ve got something on your mind, I suggest you tuck it away for another time. Today is not the day.”
She crosses her arms, juts her hip, and takes me in from boots to red-rimmed, puffy eyes.
“Yeah, I got something on my mind, but you can come in first.” She swings her torso back, leaving just enough space to squeeze through, and shuts her door behind me.
“Got any booze?” I call and throw myself bodily onto her living room couch, grabbing a throw pillow to cover my face. Right as I’m in the middle of a deep meditative breath, the pillow is ripped away. “Hey!”
“Hey yourself. You can’t have booze, aren’t you in the middle of breastfeeding?”
“Not for the next twenty-four hours I’m not.”
“Okay. Mm-hmm. Sure.”
Cami shucks the pillow back at me and flops down on the other end of the couch.
“What’s your problem?” I sit up and throw the pillow back.
“You! You are my problem!”
“Me? What the hell did I do?” I shout back, already on edge from dropping off Cedric and the mess of mommy hormones lingering in my body. I hoped once the kid popped out that the strong emotional feelings would just drain away too. If anything, they’ve strengthened.
“Your head is stuck up your unbelievable large ass, that’s what you did!”
Law chooses that moment to walk by the entrance to the living room. His head rears back at Cami’s comment, and he turns sharply toward us. He rolls his lips between his teeth, probably to keep from laughing, and carries on his way out the front door.
Damn him.
“There’s nothing wrong with my ass,” I snap back.
“Gah!” She whacks me with the pillow. “Exactly! You know who else thinks there’s nothing wrong with your ass? I’ll give you one guess.”
“No. Nuh-uh. We aren’t going there.” I shove myself off the couch as fast as I can, which isn’t that fast. I’m still recovering from the blood loss and find myself out of breath from time to time. “I’m here today for your emotional support, which you already screwed up. I don’t need your opinion too.”
She stands with a lot more speed than I did. “Don’t be stupid. Of course, I’m here for you, which is why I think you need to take a second and talk about this with someone other than yourself.”
I stomp to her kitchen and search the tall cupboards for something to take the edge off. “What is there to talk about?”
“Stop with the runaround. Do you love Nathan or not?”
I drop down to flat feet. “What?”
“Don’t forget that I have two best friends. I love both of you equally and want the best for you, but you’re hurting him. Can’t you see that?”
“Of course, I love him.”
“I don’t mean in the way that I love him.”
I grip the edge of her countertop so hard my knuckles turn white. “Yeah, Cami. I love him.”
She nudges by me and pulls out the vodka from a lower cabinet. Huh. She must have rearranged lately. Silently, she grabs two shot glasses and sets them in front of us. “Just one each. You don’t have any tolerance left. So tell me what the problem is. Maybe I can help.”
“I keep waiting for him to wake up and realize he doesn’t need to be with me to be Cedric’s dad.”
She snorts. “That’s stupid.”
“Thanks.” I slam the shot, instantly wishing I had another to take the edge off.
