Full Share (Shore House Book 1) by Eliza Freed

Author:Eliza Freed [Freed, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Full Share
Publisher: Brunswick House
Published: 2016-06-20T22:00:00+00:00

Tank and I stored the kayak in the garage, and he left me alone in our yard. I rinsed off in the outside shower, letting the water pour over my bathing suit before I slung it over the wall of the shower. It slapped against the rotting wood louder than I’d expected. It was just before dawn, and I hoped everyone would continue sleeping. I rung out my hair and wrapped myself in the first towel I’d found on the clothes line.

Rather than opening the back screen door that I knew would screech and wake Jack, I walked around to the front of the house and went in that way. Rob was passed out on the floor half sitting up with his lower back leaning against the front of the couch. There was an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts next to him and a beer between his knees. I fought the urge to help him to bed. We were no longer at the University of Delaware, and he was not my responsibility.

“I think I’m pregnant.” Blaire’s voice startled me.

My head shot up in her direction. Her eyes were fixed on Rob. “What?”

She left the corner of the hall she’d been leaning against and walked into the living room lit only by the television on in the corner with the sound turned down. It flashed light across the paneled walls and her ethereal skin. “I told him tonight that I think I’m pregnant, and this is where he slept.”

We both turned our attention to Rob. Even in his sleep, he had the delighted boyish grin that always made me feel there was still joy in the world waiting for me. All I had to do was join him and I’d have that grin, too. He was too young to have a baby. I was pretty sure men with babies slept in beds. Fathers of children quit smoking and got jobs. She must have the wrong guy. But Rob was the only guy Blaire had.

“Are you sure?” I asked.

Without a word, she turned and disappeared into the hallway. The light from the television echoed its silence across the walls of the room, and I heard Blaire’s door shut.

I abandoned Rob to find my bed. My feet stuck to the beer-stained floor of the kitchen. The newest photo on the fridge was of Blaire and Rob at a University of Delaware formal. She was gazing at him as if he’d just risen, and he was smiling at the camera or whoever was holding it. I slid past the box fan that attempted to draw the cool air from the kitchen and deposit it into my porch. Jack’s bed was empty.

He was in my bed. I tiptoed around him and silently rummaged through my bag at the end of my bed. I found shorts and a Blue Hens T-shirt and exchanged my towel for both. The towel I hung over the door to the kitchen to dry. When I turned, Jack was staring at me, completely awake.

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