“What I want is an update.Is shit good?”Toni responded,her attention pinging the short distance between me and Darius.
“She’s got sex hair.Of course it’s good,” Lena put in.
My hands flew to my hair.
“Told you,” Lena finished, aiming this at Toni.“All she hadto do was show andpoof!All good.”
“Liam caught us in bed,” I told Toni and Lena, moving myhead each way and trying to forget the men were also there.
“Oh boy,” Toni said.
“Fucking hell,” Lena said.
“We were done, and I don’t think he could see me.He stillsays he’s scarred for life,” I shared.
“I’m scarred for life, and I’m just listening to the story,”Toni said.
“I’m not and neither is Liam.He knows his dad giving hismom the business brought him into this world,” Lena said.
Even if she spoke truth, I fought gagging, knowing I’dprefer my son to live his life thinking a stork delivered him to us.
Toni looked to the side and warned an urgent, “Zip it,” twoseconds before Liam walked in with my purse.
And my keys.
For such a successful outcome, I’d really blown thisoperation.
Darius, who obviously didn’t miss anything, didn’t miss mykeys.
He looked down at me and muttered, “Baby.”
I stretched out my lips and shrugged.
His lips tipped up, and he slid his arm around my shouldersand pulled me into his side.
“Sick,” Liam said, using that word as kids used it thesedays, meaning “awesome.”
He was beaming at us.
Oh no.
I was going to cry.
“Hurry, pour the wine.You can’t cry and drink at the sametime,” Toni announced.
“Liam, go get your aunties more glasses,” Lena ordered.
“What now?”Darius asked right before the front door slammedopen again and Ally stormed in, followed by Indy.
They halted and looked around the room, their eyes stoppingon Darius and me.
Then their torsos swayed back.
In came Lee, and after him, the man who had pulled Ally awayfrom Liam and me at the hospital.
But I only had eyes for Indy.
“Indy, girl, are you pregnant?”I asked a question to whichthe answer was obvious.
