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We were divorced. This was over, and even if Jack hadn’t been in the picture, there wasn’t a chance I’d take Tom back.
“That’s not happening. Not now. Not ever.”
“Baby, please listen—”
“Donotcall me baby,” I ordered. “Babyno longer works for you. You don’t get to try to be sweet to me, just so you can get your way.”
He groaned his frustration, but he didn’t get a chance to respond, because something even more strange than Tom being here happened. Another car turned onto my driveway, taking the road a little too fast, considering the weather.
“What on Earth?” I mumbled.
The next thing I knew, the car came to a stop, and a woman stepped out.
Aurora.
Tom’s ex-girlfriend.
She was wearing a panicked look on her face when she saw him standing on my doorstep. “Tom,” she called out as she approached.
“Aurora? What are you doing here?”
She climbed the stairs and came to a stop in front of him. Shaking her head, she begged, “Please don’t do this.”
“What?”
Her eyes shifted from his to me. There was a clear look of distress and discomfort on her face. “This isn’t how I wanted to do this,” she rasped.
“What? Do what?” Tom questioned her.
“You can’t get back together with Dakota,” she told him. “You can’t. Please, come back home with me.”
A sympathetic look washed over his face. “Aurora, I can’t believe you drove all the way out here. How did you even know I was here?”
“Your sister told me. And when she said that you hadn’t given up pining over Dakota, I knew I had to follow you. She’s never going to love you the way that I do,” Aurora explained, moving closer to him and reaching for his hand.
That was probably the one thing I would have agreed with her about. I was never going to love Tom the way she did, because I was in love with someone else, someone who treated me the way I should have been treated all along.
“I think we’re done here,” I said, slowly backing up to close the door.
“Dakota, wait. No—”
“I’m pregnant,” Aurora blurted.
My eyes widened, and I stood there in silence, wondering why she was making such a declaration here and now.
“What?” Tom gasped.
Aurora nodded. She glanced at me quickly, then looked back at Tom and explained, “It happened over Christmas.”
Now it was my turn to gasp.
He cheated.
Tom had gone to his parents’ place for Christmas, left me home alone, and cheated on me with his ex-girlfriend.
“You fucking asshole,” I said. “How dare you?”
“Dakota, it was a mistake,” he said, his voice pleading with me.
