Southern Charm : A BWWM Cowboy Romance by Tiana Cole & BWWM United

Author:Tiana Cole & BWWM United [Cole, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: BWWM United
Published: 2015-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

“What the hell, Libby? You look like shit. Have you been up all night?”

Tracy was my work colleague. We had worked together in Human Resources of a major banking corporation. To begin with it was all I cared about, before I became baby crazy, moving up in the banking world. I saw big things for myself moving up the ranks from HR to management from management to CEO. After I was married, manager of the HR department, and ready to start a family moving up wasn’t important to me anymore. It had never been a priority for Tracy who was happy just moving up to management in HR and staying put.

We'd come in as juniors and now we were running the department together. Tracy was younger than me by two years. She was thirty four and had two beautiful daughters, twins aged twelve. She used to keep their picture on her desk but she saw how my eyes glazed over every time I looked at them and eventually the picture disappeared. She said she'd dropped it and it smashed but I knew why she'd really moved it. It made me feel like I had invaded her happy life, with my dreary one, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her to put it back.

“Thanks a lot, Tracy,” I said as I sat down hard in my chair. “As a matter of fact I must have gotten all of five minutes of sleep the entire night.”

Tracy leaned on her elbow on her desk opposite mine. “Did you have some...bad news,” she said. I knew she wasn’t prepared for what had actually happened, probably just another minor disappointment. Tracy would always say better luck next time for sure, but there wouldn’t be a next time. It wasn’t meant to be.

She knew I'd bought the pregnancy tests. I'd been raving about it all afternoon the day before. Tracy had done her best to try to keep me calm, telling me not to build my hopes up. But I'd put my bag over my shoulder before leaving and proudly declared, “Tracy I'm going to have a baby, I can feel it.” Now I really wished I had just kept my mouth shut. That would have been the much smarter thing to do, but I truly believed it as I had every time before that.

I put head in my hands and said nothing. Tracy got up and came over to me. She put a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

“Oh you poor darling. I'm so, so, sorry.”

“Are you?” I said, looking up. “Or are you disappointed in me too and do you want out of this department because you're sick to death of me talking babies and ovulation all the time?” I was breathing heavily and staring straight at her. I was losing it a little bit, and it wasn’t good for my psyche to start yelling in the middle of the work day.

“What's gotten into you?” she asked me. “I know you're upset but I never once said I was sick of you talking about the whole baby thing.

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