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“I know.”

“Then why do you keep bringing it up?”

“Because there are still two more days until the party, which means there’s a little hope for you yet. Plus, I know you’d have fun.”

I shook my head. “Willow, even if I wanted to come, which I don’t, I don’t have anything to wear.”

She stared at me for a second before slowly looking me up and down. “Lakelyn.”

“What?”

“You’re sitting on ninety million dollars.”

“And?”

“And you acting like you gotta go in your closet and sew a costume out of an old bedsheet! Girl, you could have somebody fly in from fucking Paris and hand-deliver you a costume by tomorrow morning!”

I laughed. “That’s not the point.”

“Then what is the point?” she countered.

I sighed. “I don’t know. I just don’t feel like it.”

She studied me for a moment before nodding. “Okay.”

I looked at her suspiciously. “Okay?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s it?”

She shrugged. “I ain’t gonna force you.”

I smiled faintly. “Thank you.”

Willow picked her clipboard up again. “But if you change your mind, I’m going as a sexy vampire, and I already found a place that got this sexy nurse costume you would look fine as hell in. Hell, you might as well let that nursing degree work a little overtime for something besides saving lives.”

I chuckled. “Well, I’m going upstairs. Let me check on Kaidence.”

“Okay.”

I started toward the staircase, then stopped and turned back. “And Willow?”

She looked up. “What?”

“Please don’t buy anything else.”

She smiled. “No promises.”

I shook my head and headed upstairs.

I was almost to Kaidence’s bedroom when I heard him talking. At first, I assumed he was playing with his toys or watching something on his tablet, but then I heard him say something that stopped me outside the door.

“So we’re gonna be a family soon?”

My heart skipped.

I stood completely still and listened.