Hunter's Baby_A Second Chance Secret Baby Romance by Alexis Abbott

Author:Alexis Abbott [Abbott, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07FFGQRKK
Publisher: Pathforgers Publishing
Published: 2018-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

Blossom

“Blossom, you alright?” asks Sage, jolting me from my panicked train of thought. I shake my head a little, as though to throw off my concern, and give her a weak, rather unconvincing smile in the rearview mirror. She quirks an eyebrow at me and tilts her head to one side-- a look I am extremely familiar with. It’s as if to say, Don’t lie to me, sis.

“I’m fine, yeah. Just, um, noticing some traffic starting to form way back behind us. I hope they don’t catch up and start tailgating my car or anything,” I lie, forcing a chuckle.

But my little sister knows me better than anyone. We have spent way more than enough time together for her to catch onto even my subtlest, most hidden changes in mood. I can tell she doesn’t want to raise an alarm and risk scaring Flora, though, and I’m with her on that. My little girl is already kind of put out by our hasty retreat from the cabin, since she was having such a blast down by the water, and the last thing I need right now is to freak her out.

“Traffic, huh?” says my sister dubiously.

“Yep. Just some regular mid-afternoon traffic I’m concerned about. No big deal,” I reply, giving her a meaningful look. Her brows furrow and her mouth sets into a hard line. She’s catching on. I see her start to turn around to look out the back windshield very, very slowly. She yawns and lifts up her arms over her head as though she’s simply stretching, so as not to alert Flora that there’s anything going on. Far, far back, probably about a half mile behind us, is the same vehicle. Hunter’s vehicle. Or at least, that’s what it looks like from this far away. I can’t be one-hundred-percent certain from this distance, but… I mean, who else would it be?

Sage bites her lip and gives me a subtle shrug.

“Does it look like...traffic to you?” I ask her pointedly.

“Hmm. Maybe. Should we be concerned about that for any reason? About the, uh, traffic, I mean? Like, is that a matter that should concern us right now?” she replies, careful to keep her tone light and breezy. I glance at Flora and I’m relieved to see that she is currently totally engrossed in counting the polka dots on her leggings. I can see her tiny rosebud lips moving, mouthing three, four, five, and so on.

“Well, I thought we’d left the traffic behind for a reason, you know?” I tell Sage, hoping that our makeshift code is intelligible between us. We have gotten pretty damn skilled at finding ways to codify our language so it’s mostly undetectable by little ears, but this one is a bit of a stretch, especially because Sage probably has no idea as to why we actually left the cottage in the first place. For all she knows, Hunter and I could’ve just had a simple lovers’ quarrel or whatever. That realization makes me shiver. I can’t imagine how much she would panic if she found out the truth.

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