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“What nonsense? I don’t knohat you’re talk—”

“You da about! It’s two ot that insane call fro me you’d married that—that Greek super-stud and that you’d found him in the arms of his bubble-brained mistress a week later, and in all that time, I’m not supposed to ask any questions or so much as mention his name” Annie folded her arms and lifted her chin “That is a load of crap, and you know it”

“It isn’t” Laurel shut off the water and folded her ar to talk about, Annie”

“Nothing to talk about” Annie snorted “You got yourself knocked up and let the guy who did it strong-ar him!”

Laurel stiffened “Must you say it like that?”

“It’s the truth, isn’t it?”

After a uess it is God, I al!”

Susie sighed dra” Annie and Laurel spun toward her and she flushed “Speaking uys, don’t look at me that way Iton to her”

“For all the good it’s going to do him,” Annie said coldly

“And didn’t you say that friend of yours, Bethany,a mad affair?”

“Her na cynical, I don’t think very much of mad affairs, not anymore” Annie jerked her chin toward Laurel “Just look where it got my sister”

“I know” Susie shook her head “And Damian seemed so perfect Handsome, rich—”

“Are you two all done discussing me?” Laurel asked “Because if you aren’t, you’ll have to continue this conversation elsewhere I told you, I will not talk about Damian Skouras That chapter’s over and done with”

“Not quite,” Annie said, and looked at Laurel’s gently rounded belly

Laurel flushed “Very a”

“Can we at least talk about how you’re going to raise this baby all by yourself?”

“I’ll e”

“There are financial implications, dammit You said yourself you’re at the end of your career”

“Thank you for re me”

“Laurel, sweetie—”

“Don’t ‘Laurel sweetie’ rooman, and I made a lot of money over the years Trust me, Annie, I saved quite a bit of it”

“Yes, but children cost You don’t realize—”

“Dammit,” Laurel said fiercely, “now you sound just like him!”

“Who?”

“Damian, that’s who Well, you sound like his attorney, anyway ‘Raising a child is an expensive proposition,’ she said in a voice that s ”‘Mr Skouras is fully prepared to support his child property“’

Susie and Annie exchanged looks “You never told me that,” Susie said

“Me, neither,” Annie added

Laurel glared at the tomen “It doesn’t matter, does it? I’m not about to take a penny from that bastard”

“Yes, but I thought I ured” Susie cleared her throat “Not that being willing to support his kidoff that way, going back to his e It makes me sick just to think about it”

Annie nodded “You’re right How he could want that idiotic blonde instead of my beautiful sister”

“He didn’t” Susie and Annie looked at Laurel, and she flushed “I never said that, did I?”

“You said he left you, for the blonde”

“I said he went back to New York and that I found him with her I never said—”

“So, he didn’t want to take up where they’d left off?”

“I don’t knohat he wanted” Laurel plucked a sponge fro down the counter with a vengeance “I never gave him the chance to tell me”

“What do you mean, you never?”