All We Never Knew by Elena Aitken

Author:Elena Aitken [Aitken, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989685099
Publisher: Elena Aitken
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“I still can’t believe you promised her a car.” Maren looked into the window of a gray, four-door sedan. It looked like a safe, reliable automobile. Not that she knew anything at all about cars. When Davis didn’t reply, she looked over to where he stood next to a bright-red, two-door with a convertible top. She frowned. There was no way. Not for a first car. She was certain she read statistics somewhere about the accident rate for teenagers who drove sporty vehicles. Especially red ones.

But Davis wasn’t looking at the convertible. He was staring at his cell phone, his fingers moving rapidly along the keyboard. They’d met at the dealership over twenty minutes ago and it was the third time she’d caught him distracted by his phone. Important client or not, he needed to put it down.

“Davis.” She snapped her fingers until he looked up. “Can we do this, please?”

“Of course.” He finished whatever it was that he was typing and tucked his phone away. “How about—” He moved to point to the red convertible but shook his head. “Not this one.”

Maren laughed. At least they were on the same page about that.

They spent a few more minutes walking around before the salesman they’d sent away earlier so they could browse in peace returned. “Do you see anything you like?” The man who’d introduced himself as Jeff Jacobs, and had what Maren would describe as an honest smile, asked as he walked up. “This is a good choice.” He pointed to the blue hatchback they’d been standing in front of. It was only a few years old, and there was nothing flashy or particularly sporty about it. But it was cute. A word Davis said shouldn’t ever be used to describe a car. “All of our used cars come with a fifty-point inspection and a three-year warranty.”

“What kind of engine is under the hood?”

The two men started talking about engine sizes and warranties, and satisfied that Davis had it under control, Maren wandered around the lot while they worked out the details. She ended up in front of the red convertible and closed her eyes. How much fun would it be in the summer? Top down, hair blowing back in the breeze, not a care in the world except driving down the freeway and—the car seat in the back.

Her eyes snapped open. There would be no carefree convertible driving for her. At least not for another eighteen years.

Oh my God. She’d be almost sixty years old when this baby graduated from high school.

Maren’s knees buckled with the realization.

Sixty? She should be thinking about grandchildren at sixty, not graduations.

The world tilted dangerously under her feet and she put a hand on the car’s cool metal to keep herself from falling over. What was she thinking? She couldn’t do it all again. Eighteen years of playdough, ballet classes, Little League, homework, skinned knees. Starting over again.

No.

She couldn’t do it. It was all too much. What were they thinking, having a baby

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