Good Girl by Smith Miranda

Author:Smith, Miranda [Smith, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Mystery, Crime
ISBN: 9781838882648
Goodreads: 53405305
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-06-24T07:00:00+00:00

When I emerge from the bedroom, I can smell the hickory sweet scent of meat. It makes me hungry, not nauseous, and I hope more nasty symptoms don’t start picking up. Danny is setting the table. I walk up behind him and squeeze my hands around his middle.

“You hungry?” he asks.

“Starving.”

He pulls me around to face him. “I’m sorry if I got too excited in there. I wasn’t meaning to put pressure on you.”

“You don’t have to apologize for being happy. I’m just still in shock.”

“I never expected I’d be as happy as I was. I’d got myself thinking something bad was going on. I thought you were about to tell me you were having an affair, or something.”

I slap his shoulder before taking a seat at the table. “Seriously? What would make you think that?”

“You’ve just seemed so distant. Like you’re holding something back. Even you said you’ve not been yourself. I guess I was just expecting to hear the worst.”

I feel guilty. I couldn’t imagine my life without Danny, but I’ve been keeping things from him. He doesn’t know how upset this Zoey stuff has gotten me. The pregnancy might even explain why I’ve been so on edge. Zoey Peterson is a damaged girl, but I’ve yet to find proof she attacked Darcy. Maybe my hormones have me overthinking. Overfeeling.

“I love you. I wouldn’t have kept this from you, but I really thought it was a fluke,” I say. “I didn’t expect for it to be positive, and I’m still racking my brains about whether I did it wrong.”

Danny walks over and slides a steak from his platter to my plate. My mouth waters just looking at it. “Those tests are more reliable than people think. You’re more likely to get a false negative. If the hormones are in your system, it’s going to pick them up.”

I feel a pang of disappointment. I was hoping to blame manufacturer or user error. “There’s a second test in the pack. Maybe I’ll take it later.”

“Do it in the morning. The test is the most accurate then.”

I nod my head as I cut into my steak. Red juices ink the plate as I put a bite in my mouth.

“I think this could be really great for us,” Danny says. “It’s not like we aren’t capable. Sure, we might have to cut back on traveling and other things. But we have plenty of income. You have a great schedule.”

“Danny, you know my hesitancy to have children has nothing to do with my career. Or yours.”

Danny stands, walks across the room and stares out the window overlooking the porch. “You can’t let him ruin this,” he says. “Being his sister isn’t a precursor for what our child might be. Truth be told, I could have lived the rest of my life with you the way things are. But now that there is a baby in the picture, I’m happy about what’s coming next.”

“Me too,” I say, even if it’s not totally real. I’ve only had a couple of hours to try and restructure more than a decade’s worth of thinking.

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