Tempest Rising: Episode 1 (Rising Storm) by Julie Kenner & J. Kenner

Author:Julie Kenner & J. Kenner [Kenner, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Texas, small town, Julie Kenner, Dee Davis, Rising Storm
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2015-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Ginny hated when everybody left and she was all alone in the room with nothing but the television, a book, and all the beeping machines.

But she was out of the woods now, so that was something. And they’d moved her from ICU to this regular room last night. Dr. Rush said that everything looked great and that normally they’d go ahead and release her, but because of the baby, they were being cautious.

The baby.

She still hadn’t quite gotten her head around it. She was going to have a baby. She was going to be a mother.

She barely even remembered her mother, so how on earth was she supposed to manage that?

Maybe she’d hit her head harder than they all thought because what had she been thinking when she said she’d keep the baby? Of course, she wouldn’t have an abortion—she didn’t think she could do that—but she could give it up for adoption. Probably should. Because she’d been on the five-year plan at UT, what with her work-study schedule, and with a baby she’d be pretty much on the twenty-year plan.

How the hell was she going to make a living without a college degree?

And how was she going to get a degree if she had to take care of a baby?

Why, oh why, weren’t Marisol or Luis here? Someone to talk to. To take her mind off all of this? The baby. Jacob.

She squeezed her eyes tight and told herself not to cry again. But she missed him so damn much. And if it was his baby—and she was going to just keep saying that it was over and over in her head until she really believed it—then it broke her heart that he’d never get to see it.

That was the part that made her sad.

The part that made her scared was that if Jacob were here and the baby was his, he’d marry her. He loved her—and even if he didn’t really love her like that, the sex had been awesome and they were best friends, and that was better than most marriages, right?

So he’d marry her and they’d raise Little Bit together. He’d get student loans for med school and they’d live in cheap housing, and she’d do some sort of work-at-home job so that she could raise the baby, and then he’d be a doctor and everything would get easier, and when they were old they’d look back and laugh about how they had to scrimp and save when they were young and had a baby.

Except Jacob was never going to get old.

She pressed her hands over her belly and closed her eyes, hating the way it just kept sneaking up on her. So far, she hadn’t had nightmares. The counselor who’d come in to talk to her had told her to be prepared for them, but if she talked about it and didn’t try to hold in her grief, she might not suffer in the night. Either way, she was better off just letting herself feel bad, and not trying to push it away.

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