I hunch towards the wall within the slender corridor between the principle eating room and the kitchen. “Can you retain a secret?”

She nods, trying keen. That’s a foul signal. “Completely. Lips sealed. Spill it.”

“I’m marrying him.”

Her palms fly to her mouth. Her eyes go large then she punches me within the arm. “You aren’t.”

“Ouch, chill out,” I say, rubbing myself. “You’re freakishly robust.”

“I do CrossFit. Inform me you’re joking. You’re severely marrying the underwear mannequin?”

“Sure, and preserve your voice down.” I lean my head again and set free a groan. “It’s a secret.”

That dampens a few of her enthusiasm. “Secret marriage, huh?” She leans towards the wall subsequent to me, our shoulders touching. One other waitress named Cathy bustles previous, pausing solely to shoot an unpleasant frown in our path. She works too rattling onerous. “That’s not a great signal.”

“I do know. Issues are simply difficult.”

“Are you cheerful no less than?”

“Like I mentioned, they’re difficult.”

“Ouch. Okay. Ought to I name a girls’s shelter for you or one thing? I’m not even kidding. Inform me proper now and you may come stick with me.”

“Yeah, proper, and sleep in your terrible futon? No thanks. I’ve Vietnam Struggle flashbacks in regards to the one evening I crashed on it. My backbone’s nonetheless actively pissed at me.”

“No matter, the provide is all the time open. Are you positive you’re okay?”

“I’m good. Actually, I’m good. It’s only a lot. However I’m good.”

“Yeah, you appear completely good.” She nudges me with a smile. Cathy comes hurrying previous, this time staring daggers. “She’s not even making an attempt to cover how aggravated she is. We’re on break, Cath! Chill out a bit bit.”

Cathy flips us off earlier than turning the nook.

“Go on, get again to it. I’m going to hover over the bathroom and pray I don’t hurl.”

“You’re positive I don’t should be nervous?”

“I’m constructive.”

Besides I’m clearly not, however the shift goes by simpler with out Marsha worrying over me greater than she already does. As soon as I’m completed, I step out onto the sidewalk already mentally making ready myself for the bus experience again to the condominium, after I spot him standing close to the curb, the engine of his Lexus already working.

I hesitate. I didn’t inform him my schedule, and I didn’t ask for a experience. However he’s right here, and my ft damage, and it’s handy. He tilts his head in my path as if inviting me over, and I sigh in resignation.

“You’re stalking me.”

“Solely a bit bit.” He opens the passenger aspect door. “Climb in, my pregnant fiancée.”

I roll my eyes, but it surely smells good in his automobile. It smells like him: minty, a bit spicy, like very refined cologne. He drives fastidiously throughout city and it takes me a minute to understand he’s headed north.

“You’re going the flawed means.” I crane my neck to look again the way in which we got here. “The place are we going?”

“Residence.”

“My condominium is—” Oh. Shit. He doesn’t imply my condominium.

He’s making an attempt to not chuckle and that pisses me off, so I cross my arms and let the topic drop.

His home is strictly the way in which I remembered it. Trendy and exquisite, the type of multi-million greenback place I’ve solely ever seen on-line. He takes me upstairs and into the master suite, and I pause on the edge.

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