Time Out by Stacey Lynn

Author:Stacey Lynn [Lynn, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacey Lynn

Chapter 21

Maggie

I learned about more than football watching the game and sitting near Cole Buchanan’s family. First, I learned Kate and Dave treated every human under the age of thirty like they were their own children. As soon as I found the seat my ticket stated, Kate was on her feet, already searching for me. How she knew what I’d look like, I had no clue. As far as I knew, Davis hadn’t taken any pics of me, but once I got close to the row, she was already waving her arm, calling my name. She welcomed me with a hug and her name, insisting I call her Mama B like everyone else, and her husband Dave did the same thing. We spent the time alone with them, telling me all about Cole and their other son, Graham, who was still in college, playing football, but not the same position as Cole. And then Eden showed.

She hugged them like they were their own parents, held Jasper’s hand, and got him situated. She welcomed me with a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes and a handshake that was a little too hard, a little too suspicious.

She had to know, right? Cole would have told her… which made everything make sense.

She wasn’t suspicious of me because she didn’t know me… she basically gave me the cold shoulder all game because she knew I was pregnant and she absolutely didn’t trust me.

It soured my mood. I was being judged in ways I hadn’t been since I stopped wearing floor-length skirts and homemade dresses and first stepped foot into the “real world.”

I didn’t blame her, but the assumptions she made about me weighed heavily on my shoulders. Throughout the game she made ignoring me an art form while she fussed with Jasper, turned and smiled and laughed with Kate and Dave all while Jasper was firmly planted between us. She jumped to her feet and cheered during every great play Cole made, gave high-fives to Jasper and Dave, spinning while she did so and skipped her gaze right over mine.

Needless to say, by the time the clock was running down, we weren’t all just on our feet, I was starting to get a pit in my stomach growing with dread because after this game, Davis promised Kate and Dave—and his own father who was also somewhere in this stadium—we’d all head to their home in Marysville, north of Nashville, for their Sunday family dinners.

All that surety I felt earlier in the week when I agreed to move in with Davis so he could help me out and all the confidence I had in what I thought we were growing was quickly replaced with an anxious, constant stream of doubts. If I stayed with Davis, this would be how everyone treated me. Friends. Family. Strangers online probably tearing me apart from my hair and eye-shape to the curves of my body. I would forever be known as a gold digger. Or worse.

I might have really liked Davis, but I wasn’t sure I had the stomach for the rest of it.

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