Inevitably (RiffRaff Records Book 8) by L.P. Maxa

Author:L.P. Maxa [Maxa, L.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951055318
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Published: 2019-10-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Emmie

Dinner at Landry and Brody’s house was last night. And I’d been thinking about Kase’s hands on me ever since. The words he’d spoken, the compliments he’d given me. But more than that, I thought about how he made me feel. He made me feel like I could do anything, like I could own my life without anyone’s help. He made me feel capable and beautiful, and I was so grateful.

So far, Kase had kept his word. He was there for me, and he was there for the baby. He wanted to be part of this, and he wasn’t going anywhere.

“Emmie, can you come in here, baby girl?”

And now, he was really going to be put to the test. I knew that tone, even from down the long hallway that separated my room from where my parents were hanging out in the den. It was that concerned yet slightly suspicious tone that I’d heard my aunts and uncles use with my cousins.

“Yeah, give me just a sec.” I closed the textbook I’d been reading, quickly typing out a message to Kase.

Emmie: It’s go time.

Kasen: Holy shit.

Emmie: You backing out?

Kasen: Nope. Never. I’m on my way.

Knowing that Kase was coming gave me the strength I needed to climb off my bed and head toward the firing squad. This was it. This was the moment I let my parents down, by letting them in. I made a detour to the kitchen, buying time by getting myself a drink of water.

“Emmie? Are you coming?”

I put my glass in the sink, allowing myself a few deep breaths before leaving the safety of the dark kitchen and walking into the well-lit den.

“Hey, guys, what’s up?”

My parents were sitting side by side on the oversize sectional where we all gathered for family movie nights every Sunday while we were growing up.

“Well, baby, I got a call from Master Degas this afternoon.” My mom took off her glasses and sat them and the magazine she’d been reading on the coffee table. “She asked if you were okay. Said you hadn’t been to rehearsal in a few days.” There was concern in her tone and in her eyes.

“Sweetheart, is everything okay? Are you sick? Hurt? Did something happen?” My dad was perched next to my mom, a worried united front ready to tackle any problem together and head on.

Would Kase and I have that? We’d have to schedule big talks like this with our kid. I’d have to call him and hope that he had cell service, then wait for him to fly home. Whatever, we’d make it work. And hopefully, our kid would never have to sit us down and tell us about an unplanned pregnancy.

“Um, actually, yes, something did happen but—”

“Hold on, baby, I think someone’s knocking. Do y’all hear that?” My heart dropped to my stomach when my dad got off the couch to answer door. “Kase? Hey, bud, what are you doing here?”

“I’m here for Emmie.”

I could hear them getting closer and closer to the living room with every step.

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