Sadie: Too bad you didn’t have twins, it would’ve bought me more time.
Marlee: We’re on our way home. Don’t leave until we see you, Sadie.
Becca: Can we discuss Sadie’s best friend betrayal?
Sadie sighed. She’d make it up to them with chocolate and tequila the next time they all got together.
Not that she could really blame Marlee; the four friends generally shared everything. Of course, they all had their own little secrets. She had the Roman secret, but that hardly counted. They knew he existed, they knew she’d had her heart broken, but she’d simply never shared thewhoof that situation.
Sadie: Let’s discuss something other than Roman.
Becca: Let’s not.
Marlee: Eli wants to talk to him about what his “intentions” are, it’s cute.
Oh nope. No.
Sadie: Do *not* involve Eli.
Becca: IDK That could be kinda fun to watch. Even match. Who do you think would win?
Marlee: Eli.
Kellie: She has to say that, he’s her baby daddy.
Sadie: Do people actually say that? The baby daddy thing?
Becca: Oh Sadie. Dear, sweet Sadie.
Marlee: …
Kellie: The next time you bang a Dvornakov, we need to be the first to know.
Sadie: Kel, we didn’t “bang.” I mean, we did, but…
Marlee: You should’ve seen him. He’s so into her.
Sadie: Stop. Let’s talk about baby Luke instead.
Sadie opened the pantry, moved Lothario’s special treats to the side, and there, in all its glory, was what she assumed was Roman’s cell phone.
Drat.
If she had his phone, then she needed to return it. She was doing such a good job of pretending he didn’t exist—until friends brought him up or his cell phone magically appeared where Babushka had hidden it. Sadie grabbed his phone from the shelf. She’d pass it off to Eli who could then pass it along to Roman.
Her own phone chimed again.
Kellie: We require hourly baby pics since Becca & I can’t be there.
Kellie and Becca had both moved away from Denver. Unlike Sadie, they’d stayed away.
Marlee: I promise. I would never leave you out of something so important.
Sadie: Puh-lease. Says the woman who got frisky with my brother.
Marlee: But I married him first, so…
Becca: Sadie, you know we’re teasing. We love you, no matter what.
