His Property by R.R. Banks

Author:R.R. Banks [Banks, R.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

Rue

Chapter Nineteen

Rue

“What happened?”

“They held an intervention for me.”, I answered.

“An intervention for what?”

I accepted the cool cloth that Christopher held out to me and wiped it across my chest. The waves of nausea that I had been feeling eased and I took in a breath, letting it out slowly to ease my trembling.

“Apparently, they think that I’ve been bewitched in some way, I think. I’m not entirely sure. I couldn’t totally follow everything that was being screamed at me.”

“So, the takeaway lesson for the day is that the people of Whiskey Hollow aren’t ready to have a surrogate mother in their midst.”

“No, the takeaway lesson for the day is that the snake handlers of Whiskey Hollow should be turned over to the FBI and not be allowed to operate motor vehicles, even if they are marked for farm use only.”

I tried to sit up but felt another rush of nausea and rested back again.

“I thought that the morning sickness was supposed to go away by this point,” Christopher said.

“That’s another one of those delightful lies people tell you about being pregnant,” I said. “They say that you’ll feel so much better by the end of your first trimester. I felt fine up until these last two weeks. Now I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck.”

“What about Richard?”

“I’m sure he’s feeling fine.”

“No,” Christopher said, sitting down beside me and pressing another cool cloth to my forehead. “What about Richard?”

He knows me too fucking well.

“I can’t think about Richard,” I said. “I go back to the midwife in two weeks and I’ll see him then, but that’s really all I can think about.”

“Why?”

“What do you mean ‘why’? You know exactly why.”

“No, I know that you said that this man has been falling over himself to make you happy.”

“And that he’s getting married.”

“In theory. In theory, Rue, and to a woman who you, yourself, said was the Bitch of All Evil.”

“I might have been a little hasty about that. I don’t really know her. Besides, it doesn’t matter what I think of her. He chose her. He is planning a family with her. He intends to marry her. What I think of her is completely inconsequential.”

“You can’t just give up on him. I haven’t seen you look like this when you talked about a man - you know what? I’ve never seen you look like this when you talked about a man. This is different. There’s something here, and you can’t just let yourself pretend you don’t feel it because it’s convenient for you.”

“There’s nothing convenient about this, Christopher. Nothing at all. I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do.”

“Yeah, I can see your conflict. A gorgeous, exorbitantly wealthy man builds a medical center to ensure you get the best care possible, spends Thanksgiving with you, decorates your home for Christmas. I just don’t know what you could possibly see in that.”

“He didn’t build the medical center for me. He built it for the baby.”

“The baby that is half yours, I’ll point out.

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