Triple Love Score by Brandi Megan Granett

Author:Brandi Megan Granett [Granett, Brandi Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942545408
Amazon: 1942545401
Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Published: 2016-09-01T23:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R

DANIELLE WASN’T DYING. She didn’t have cancer. She had a baby.

“A baby,” Danielle said. “A baby.”

“It’s not a tumor,” Miranda said.

“Four months.”

“You’re due in May. That’s good. You miss being pregnant in the summer.”

“But a baby. I don’t think I can breathe.” Danielle bent forward and placed her hands on her knees.

“You’re breathing. Stop it. How will you tell Omar? What will you tell his parents?”

“Omar!” Danielle shouted, her voice carrying over the parking lot. “You tell Omar. Call him.”

“I can’t tell him.”

“Yes, you can. Do this for me.”

“I’m not telling him. I’ll call, but you are telling him.”

Miranda reached into her purse for her phone. She hadn’t turned it on once since she arrived the day before. Just as she went to dial Omar’s number, the battery died. “I don’t have any battery left. Give me yours. I’ll use that.”

“I don’t have it.”

“Don’t have it?”

“I don’t carry it, and I can’t have it when I’m teaching my classes—they’re strict about that.”

“Well, you need it now. You have to tell him.”

Danielle pursed her lips together. “Can’t it wait?”

“Wait? Aren’t you excited? Don’t you want him to know?”

“I thought I was dying. Omar thought I was dying. What if he doesn’t really want to marry me? What if it is just a big mistake?”

“But you’re pregnant. With his baby! Doesn’t that kind of make marriage seem like a good idea? Don’t you love him?”

“The baby I can handle. I’ve always wanted to be a mother. But, Randa, what if he doesn’t love me? What if he just felt sorry for me because I was sick?”

“Dani, don’t be like this. You know he does.”

“Yeah, I’ve known that for ten years. Ten years!” Again her voice boomed out over the sea of cars. “And he never once even tried to propose. I thought surely after I moved to Turkey. I thought after I met his family. I thought after his great-grandmother passed away, and everyone relaxed a little. I thought after I had my own apartment. After he had his own apartment. But none of this mattered. He didn’t want to marry me, Randa. Not until we thought I was sick. What does that say?”

“Fine. You win, okay, can we go someplace to talk about this? Someplace that’s not a parking lot?”

“Sure, sure. Get in the car.”

Danielle kept her eyes forward and both hands on the wheel as she steered them through the streets of Istanbul. She turned the radio up loud, and music in what Miranda could only assume was Turkish poured through the speakers. Miranda studied her friend; this girl she’d known almost all of her life was about to be a mother, a wife. It all seemed like a fairy story where some magic delivered the beautiful woman from danger and waltzed her into true love’s path. How was this even possible? Real life didn’t work like that. As much as she wanted to believe, to think that something like Christmas magic or fairy tales could be true, Miranda knew magic didn’t exist like that, not really anyway.

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