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Longready to send her a nasty text, I hear the locks being undone and then the door swings open

"Good" She slances over her shoulder, worry in her gaze "You’re here"

I frown at her She’s not in her usual party dress, either And when I say "party dress" like she’s a little girl, I mean it If there’s a party to be had, Lily’s usually the best-dressed attendee She can’t see little denim cutoff shorts and a tank top Her hair is in a sloppy ponytail and there’s not a lick of makeup on her face Odd

"I’ a hand at the co It’s turquoise and dotted with little white squiggles and currently theI own I don’t have a full-on belly yet, but there’s a slight pooch and I hate wearing anything that restrictsready Not everyone’s here yet" Her gaze skitters away fro toto let me in or what?"

"Oh my God, of course" She sweeps the door open and I walk inside, glancing around for any gli here "Aether and I fall into step behind her as we head for the kitchen "There’s so about? And why is she being so strange?

"I really hope you didn’t plan so unexpected, because I am so not in the o hoh the kitchen, which leads to a s table is There’s athere, but I don’t knoho he is and the roo in the diht, and he slowly stands to his feet

Everything within th of him …

His face corasping the edge of the granite countertop to keepover

It’s Caden

"Okay, well, this is your chance for you two to make up Ta-ta!" And with that Lily buzzes out of there, the loud sla she’s left us in her apartment Completely alone

"Hey," he says, the sound of his deep, delicious voicerovel a bit I can only assuh Cash That she set this entireup forto be a father

But seeing hier comes back to me, double force I think of how he leftletter I should hit him just for that letter alone

"You look beautiful, Ro," he says after a long, charged moment of silence, and I clench one hand into a fist, htly "I’ve h I also want to cry "Really? Could’ve fooled me, ith the way you’ve reached out and tried to contact me"

The shadow that crosses his face makes me happy Good He should feel bad He should feel incredibly guilty and shitty for what he’s done "I havehi it He doesn’t move, just stares at me as if I’ve lost my mind, and I do feel like I’ve lost it I think I’ in front ofso clean and handso a button-down shirt and charcoal-gray trousers His hair is cut neatly and though it’s hanging loosely froot off work or so downany, I cover my face with my hands and he moves into action I can hear hiht in front ofive in so easily His hand cups the back of ainst his chest I can feel his heart race, soes aroundfirht

I feel like I’ve co my arms around his waist as I cry My tears dahwords to ainst my ribs so hard he can surely hear it

"I’ve ainstGet my life on track, be a better man before I come find you and make youabout? "What do you ainst his chest