She takes my hand in hers. “Okay, so now we’re having a delayed reaction, and we’re processing all of this?—”
“Shut up.”
She shuts up.
Of course this isn’t going to be a secret forever. You can’t stay married to someone and never tell anyone. He’s going to…
What? What is he going to do?
He wants to take me to his sister’s wedding in the summer. That’s the timeline. This is a secret until the end of the season, at most.
I push myself up and brace my elbows against my knees. “His family is going to hate me.”
“Whoa, where did that come from?”
“He’s going to move here.”
“I think they’re all rich and know how airplanes work.”
Rich. Ugh. “We don’t have a prenup.”
She shrugs. “Who cares?”
My father would.
“If Logan cared about something like that, he wouldn’t have married you spontaneously. And if his family cares about that, then he’ll tell them to fuck off.”
I laugh weakly.
“Am I wrong? He looks like the type who might do that.”
“I don’t know. I think so.”
“Let’s look at his family,” she says casually, flipping to Instagram.
“No don’t?—”
But she already has Emery Granger’s account open.
“Sloane!”
“She’s super cute. Look at her pregnant belly.”
“This is so inappropriate.”
“It’s a public Instagram account, babe. Settle your tits. She goes back to scrolling. “Oh, here’s a photo from last summer. The whole family at some cabin. They look... actually really normal and happy?”
Despite myself, I lean over to look. Logan’s in the middle of the group photo, his arm around Emery’s shoulders, surrounded by what must be his brothers and his parents. Everyone’s laughing at something off-camera.
“Those don’t look like people who are going to hate you.”
“I’m just going to rock up at her wedding with a ring of my own, surprise.”
“Oh.” Sloane puffs out her cheeks. “Yeah, okay, so you can’t do that. Plan a vacation before that. You’ll have some time in…March? Is that your research month?”
“April,” I say miserably. She doesn’t get the hockey calendar. “The start of playoffs. They’re all going to be busy.”
And then May is my last emergency rotation and June is graduation.
