Expecting Her Ex's Baby by Shannon Stacey

Author:Shannon Stacey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-05-05T22:08:09+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Stonefield PD fielded multiple reports last night about screaming shortly after midnight, which many of you have been talking about in our comments. After a brief investigation, the officer on duty determined the screaming sound was made by a saw cutting the High Street sign post off at the ground. We asked Chief Bordeaux for an official statement and we offer his comment in its entirety:

“Now they stole the whole damn sign? I quit.”

Don’t worry, Stonefield. The Board of Selectmen’s secretary assures us our chief of police has not submitted a letter of resignation.

—Stonefield Gazette Facebook Page

Ellen and Laura hadn’t even been gone two hours when Evie got a phone call from her mom. “Can you do us a huge favor?”

“If you’re going to tell me you’re afraid you left the oven on, I’m going to laugh at you.”

“Laura left the hotel information on a sticky note in her office and she can’t find the confirmation email on her phone, so she might have deleted it. Can you go over to the house and get it for us?”

“The hotel will have you in the computer, you know.”

“There are a lot of hotels in North Conway.”

Evie sighed and rested her forehead against her hand. “You don’t remember which hotel?”

“She made the reservation months ago, and she thought she knew, but they all have very similar names.”

“Okay. Did she call Lane, since he actually lives in the same house as the note?”

“Of course she did, but he’s not answering.”

“Fine. I’ll go now and call you once I’m in the office.”

When she got to the Thompson house, she didn’t see Lane’s truck and the front door was locked. After grabbing the not-so-hidden spare key, she let herself in and made her way to Laura’s office, trying not to think about the fact that the last time she’d been in this house, she’d ended up in Lane’s bed. Smiling as she ran her hand over her swollen stomach, she told herself Lane not being around was for the best.

The sticky note with the information about the hotel was right in the center of Laura’s desk—probably so she wouldn’t forget to take it—and Evie called her mom to give her the information. She also snapped a picture of the note and sent it to her, just in case. She was about to leave when a framed photo on the end of the desk caught her attention and she froze.

They’d cropped her out.

She picked up the frame and looked at what had probably been the last family photo taken before Lane’s dad died. Lane and his parents were laughing at the camera and it was one of the happiest pictures she’d ever seen. But she knew why Lane’s right arm went out of the frame.

That’s where Evie had been. They’d been holding hands, only a month or so after their wedding, and the four of them had gone to the Old Home Day celebration together. Her father had taken the picture after cracking some ridiculous dad joke that made them all laugh.

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