Secrets That We Keep by Linda Kage

Author:Linda Kage [Kage, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Linda Kage
Published: 2021-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Bella

THAT FRIDAY

I had almost told Gracen about me and Fox the other day when I’d taken him out for lunch. It’d been on the tip of my tongue to just blurt it out there as he’d sat across the table from me and frowned down at his menu, trying to decide what to order.

But then my heart had started to thump—hard—and this swishing buzzing sound had filled my ears while my head went super light. I about drove myself into a freaking panic attack with how anxious I was over telling him the simple truth, and so…

I chickened out.

Besides, something was going on with him, and it was making him act strange. I wondered if he was upset with me because I’d refused to tell him who the Warthog was on my phone or if he had something else going on to the side that was bothering him, but he’d been so distracted throughout the entire meal that I think he only heard about twenty percent of everything I said to him.

The way he’d looked when I’d first gone into his office concerned me, though. What if he had health issues he didn’t want to tell me about because it’d freak me out? I hoped he’d confide in me if something was wrong. But just thinking about him possibly being ill made my guilt about not confessing my relationship with Fox triple.

So today, I stopped by the mall after work to do him a big favor. The family was having a big collective baby shower for all the couples who were going to have babies within the next nine months, plus Lucy Olivia. She was probably only three months along by now, but Rory was going to pop any minute, so the moms in the groups decided to celebrate all their approaching births together.

Which meant I had four baby presents to purchase in the next hour.

Since I already knew my twin would never remember to get his own gifts for them, I doubled what I’d usually pay for each little bambino so I could slap his name on the card and just have him pay me back. After texting him what I was doing, I grinned at the grateful, you’re-the-best-sister-ever message he sent back. And wheeling my heaping cart full of infant paraphernalia toward the nearest checkout station in the store, I paused when I passed the ladies’ lingerie department.

The way Fox always—and I mean, always—appreciated it whenever I wore something new to bed, yet he never made requests or demands for anything specific, made me want to get something new for him. Just because.

So I checked the time, realized I still had a couple of minutes to spare before I had to start toward the baby shower, and I steered my load in between a rack of dominatrix nighties and sheer lacy white nightgowns to have a little look-see.

Fox seemed to equally appreciate everything I wore for him, so it honestly didn’t matter what I chose; he’d probably love it.

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