Healed : Sugar and Spice, Ink by Evan Grace

Author:Evan Grace [Grace, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Heidi’s pink hair tickles my chest as we lie on my sofa watching New Girl. This is the only day we’ve really gotten to see each other in the past two weeks. Between my workouts and part-time job as a physical therapy assistant, we haven’t seen each other.

Don’t get me wrong, at night or early in the morning we’d make love, but not much more than that. It’s only temporary, but it still sucks. I rub my hand up and down her back.

Her stomach growls, making me smile. “Hungry?”

“I could eat,” Heidi says as she pushes herself up on my chest.

“Should we order a pizza?” I reach up, kissing her lips.

“That sounds really good.”

I climb off the sofa and grab my phone, pulling up the app. After ordering the pizza, I climb on the sofa and pull Heidi until she’s on top of me. “We have forty-five minutes to an hour.”

She snuggles under my chin and turns on our show. This is how we lay until the doorbell rings. After I answer the door and take the pizza from the delivery driver, I place the pizza on the coffee table, and we sit snuggled together while we eat.

We finish eating, and she cleans up the mess. She comes over and kneels on the floor next to me. I rub my hand over her hair. “What’s going on, baby?”

Heidi grabs my hands. “There’s something I want to tell you.”

I don’t miss the way she trembles. Oh god, is she going to break things off with me? “O-okay. What is it?”

She lays her head on my shoulder. “It wasn’t long after you left that I found out I was pregnant.” I freeze. “I was prepared to do it alone because I didn’t think you’d want the baby.” She’s silent for a moment. I can feel her palms begin to sweat. “I was home by myself. I hadn’t told anyone I was pregnant yet because I wanted to go to the doctor and have everything confirmed. Well, I was taking a shower when my stomach started cramping. When I looked down, blood was running down my leg. I got dressed and drove myself to the ER. I’d had a miscarriage… I lost our baby.”

I stand suddenly and accidentally knock her to her butt. “Fuck, I’m sorry.” Bending down, I grab her hands and pull her up to her feet. I don’t know what to say, but I feel like I’m going to throw up.

She lost our baby, and I wasn’t there. I can’t breathe. It feels like someone is sitting on my chest. I back away from her as a weird buzzing starts in my ears.

“Colton? Say something?” Heidi’s voice is soft and broken.

I open and close my mouth, but no sound comes out. I turn on my heel, grab my keys, and bolt out the door. I look in the rearview mirror and find Heidi standing in the driveway.

I drive and drive and then find myself on Tyrell’s street. It’s not late, so hopefully it’s okay that I stop by.

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