My sister was waving something in front of me.
I snapped my gaze to hers. “What did you say?”
We were standing in Victoria’s Secret at the outdoor outlet mall we had gone to after lunch and when I glanced over at my sister, she was waving a piece of lacey, coral-colored fabric in my face.
“Do you think my husband would still consider me sexy in this even with my protruding belly?”
I couldn’t help the laugh that escaped. “Are you off your rocker? That man worships the ground you walk on and will always think you are sexy.”
“Really?”
I grabbed the garment from her and started toward the register at the other end of the store.
“Where are you going with that?” she shouted as she followed behind me.
I slowed, looking over my shoulder and saw we caught Capri and Ruby’s attention. They slid in front of Lake, cutting her off, to follow me. We had a train of women marching toward the back of the store with the pregnant one taking up residence as the caboose.
If only all the ladies were here. Now that would have been a sight. At the thought, I let out my first real laugh of the day. Sure I managed a few, but they still felt a tad forced because I knew how hard the gals were trying to cheer me up.
Finally making it to the counter, I thrust the negligee at the lady behind it. “I’d like to buy this for my sister so she can see just how insane she was for even contemplating her husband wouldn’t think for a damn second that she was sexy.”
The cashier stared at me, clearly not sure what to say as Lake gasped, and the other ladies howled with laughter.
I turned around and leveled my sister with a look. “That’swhat you get for staging an intervention.” Then I moved my gaze to the other two. “One down, two to go.”
The laughter stopped and Ruby and Capri’s mouths dropped open in shock.
Turning back to the saleswoman to finish my purchase, I smirked.
I was getting pretty good at this thing called friendship.
“I can’t believe you did that,” Lake said as we sat at a table outside a small coffee shop.
Capri laughed. “It was hilarious.”
Lake leveled her with a look. “Just wait until it’syourturn.”
In the moment, I was having fun and not thinking too hard, but now that things had calmed down, Huntley was back invading my thoughts.
“Are you going to tell us why you decided to push that man of yours away?” Ruby asked, clearly sensing my mood change.
I gave a sigh of defeat and told them what they wanted to know.
After I was done, Lake laid her hand on mine. “Not to throw your words back in your face, but, that man worships the ground you walk on.”
I was shaking my head in denial as the other ladies nodded in agreement with my sister.
“I don’t need all the facts of your past to know there is one and I also don’t need them to know that Huntley is in love with you,” Capri told me. “We can all see it.”
In love with me?
Capri was off her rocker.
“It’s true,” Ruby added.
My sister patted my hand. “Seriously, the man is miserable and torn up without you. I work with him, remember? I’ve never seen him so upset.”
An awful feeling settled in my gut.
