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"No waving thefor me, huh?"
"Oh honey, if only I could I know you love Suzy and I know you’re tied in knots over Reva and the baby The only piece of advice that I can give you is to be patient When this baby is born have a paternity test Do not let Reva talk you out of it If the baby is yours, then do what feels right to you"
Gray rubbed his face with his hand, exhaustion plain in every h, Moone now and I can’t even blame her I’ve been so shell shocked that I’ve made a bad situation even worse I can’t ask her to stay knowing that she needs to go I don’t want a life with Reva and she probably doesn’t even want one withthat her parents are pushing all of her buttons I can’t ask Suzy to be stuck in the middle like that She deserves so much better In the end, I’ve turned out to be no better than the last guy who broke her heart"
"Son, you didn’t go out and see Reva behind her back You and Suzy were not a couple when you slept with her Sure you both have to endure the fall-out now, but you weren’t unfaithful to Suzy Give yourself a break and give Suzy some time When you love someone that much, you often find a way back to each other, even if it takes ti able to be apart forever Even if this is your baby, things will settle down eventually and you’ll be clearer You’re flying on pure e picture You’ve never been a quitter Grayson, so don’t start waving the white flag now, ok?"
Gray smiled at his irl I bet Dad doesn’t knohether he’s co most of the time"
"Hey you better watch that smart mouth" Then with a feline smile, she admitted, "Honey your dad hasn’t knohether to wind his butt or scratch his watch since the moment heyou and Suzy would be the sahed Oh, how he loved his ht Life with Suzy would never be boring He’d never knoas co with her, and like his father, he’d love it Maybe his ive Suzy some time and also try to find some workable solution between hiive up yet and he never would be
Chapter Twenty Four
Suzy had caved to pressure fro in a Mexican restaurant with Beth, Claire, Ella and Nick It had been teeks since she’d last spoken to Gray and tireat deal of trouble to put on a good front, but she was barely survivingher to this? Jeff had been a walk in the park coh her body when she thought of Gray
Everyone was still worried about her, she knew that Her clothes hung on her now, the thought of foodShe pushed an enchilada around on her plate trying to give the illusion that she was eating Everyone said it would take tiet easier to get up in the ? When would she stop tre on the street when she saw so across the table at Nick made her physically hurt He looked so much like his brother She kneasn’t fair to him, but she avoided him as much as she could He’d asked her to lunch and dinner several tio She cared so ht noas just a painful reminder of the brother that she couldn’t have
She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked over into Claire’s syirlfriend, you zoned out on me there for a minute"
Suzy put on her best carefree s that fine specimen of man at the bar"
Claire looked to where she was pointing at a cute blond surfer type "Oh Suz, please, he probably begins every sentence with "dude"
"Dude, what’s wrong with that?"
Claire’s entire stoer before that oven ti her hand on her stomach affectionately, Claire said, "A little over a "
Nick, apparently hearing her co, "Please no talk of your heain"
"Oh come on Nick," Claire teased, "just think about how far ahead of the ganant You won’t even need to buy ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting,’ you’ll already know it all"
Nick visibly shuddered "God woman, can you please not jinx me over there I have no desire for a kid or to know about all you girls’ weird bodily functions Now on to soarita?"
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Suzy was relieved to get home and away from the scrutiny of her friends Theyabout her, but she just preferred her own coht now At least when she was horeat Only the walls of her apartment knew that she cried herself to sleep more often than not She’d turned into one of those pathetic creatures that she’d always pitied, brought to her knees by a ood way
At least she wasn’t walking around the office with a box of tissue sobbing on everyone ould listen Work was her refuge, the one place that she could focus on soh it was torture not knoas going on, at least she didn’t have to see hi to what she’d read in her lowerprocess was nor herIf you can’t be with the one you love, lust the one you’re with or soh, held zero appeal
Apparently, Beth had even said so When she called last week, she’d gone into a twenty-minute speech on the pitfalls of romantic silliness and hoo career When the n yourself with soh, how diddebate that resulted in her conception It was probably for additional tax deductions and to possibly birth the next Einstein Boy that must be a real kick in the ass now