“Well, then he met that bitch Joanna.” She got angry. “And then he dumped Alice, and instead of being with me, he started dating her.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be.” She shrugged. “We still fucked. And I hoped he would come to his senses.”
“But then what about Henry?” I asked softly.
“Oh, he was Luke’s friend. I met him one night and tried to make Luke jealous.” She shrugged. “He was okay. I didn’t care about him.”
“Why did you lie about the baby?”
“I wanted to make Luke call off the wedding.” Her face grew sad. “I thought he’d call it off to marry me if he thought I was pregnant with his baby.”
“Oh.”
“But stupid Henry told him we’d fucked, and somehow, they ended up thinking it was his. And, well, next thing I knew,Xander was offering me money to marry him as long as he and Henry could be in the baby’s life.”
“And you let them believe there was still a baby?”
“He gave me this huge rock and promised me a lot of cash.” She shrugged. “Who was I to say no?”
“But there’s no baby, Gabby. You can’t just lie and think that’s okay.”
“What do you care?” She drank some more wine.
“I can’t believe you did that. I thought you were pregnant. Everyone thinks you’re having Xander’s baby.”
“I’m not stupid, Liv. I’m on the pill.” She tossed her hair. “Do you really think I’d have unsafe sex and risk having a baby and ruin my perfect figure right now?”
“You’re a selfish bitch.”
“Thank you.” She grinned and drank some more wine. “Andsaluteto you too.”
“Whatever.” I shook my head and walked away from her, my head thudding as I joined Alice again.
“What’s going on?” she asked softly as I sat down with her. “What did she say?”
“She’s not pregnant,” I said in a daze. “She’s not pregnant, Alice.”
“No way.” She looked at me with a shocked expression. “So, she lied.”
“Yes, she lied to all of us.” I rubbed my forehead and closed my eyes for a second.
“Are you okay, Liv?” Alice grabbed my hands.
I opened my eyes slowly and nodded. “Yeah, I’m okay.”
“You don’t look okay.”
“It’s just something she said; it got me thinking.”
“What’s that?”
“I’m not on the pill.”
“So?” Alice shrugged. “Does that matter?”
“I had sex with Xander.”
