Come What Maybe by Kerri Carpenter

Author:Kerri Carpenter
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

It had started raining after all, and Lauren spent the afternoon in her bedroom. She did a little work and also a little reading. Currently, she was devouring an article in a magazine she picked up in town called Pregnant Women Monthly.

Today, she was learning about how her body was going to change over the coming months. She couldn’t deny that there was a lot of gross stuff in here. Mucus plug? No thank you.

She flipped through the rest of the pages, stopping on a collage with sleeping newborns. She almost sighed as she took in the angelic little faces. She ran her fingers over the page, imagining that she would be having her own little bundle of joy.

“What’s that?”

Lauren jumped a mile at Grams’s voice. She quickly covered the magazine.

“Scare a person to death, Grams. Jeez.”

Grams narrowed her eyes in that way she had. She was like a velociraptor trying to figure out her next meal choice. Not for the first time in her life, Lauren was thrilled that Grams couldn’t read her mind. Because she definitely wouldn’t take kindly to being compared to a ferocious dinosaur.

Actually, she probably would.

“Heard you and your sister had quite the morning,” Grams said, leaning against the doorjamb.

“Mine wasn’t too eventful, but Brooke’s certainly was interesting,” she said with a wry smile.

“Heard she got run down by an enormous dog.”

Relaxing, Lauren laughed. “You heard right.”

“I’m sure all of Maine heard, since she’s been bitching about her dress since she got home. I believe she’s at the drycleaners right now.”

Lauren and Grams both rolled their eyes.

“A tragic day in the life of Brooke,” Lauren said. “Getting dirt on her dress while an adorable dog named Princess licked her.”

“Princess?” Grams closed her eyes while she thought about that. “That would be Kai’s dog.”

Interested, Lauren sat up. “You know him?”

Grams shook her head. “I haven’t met him yet. But the whole town is abuzz with his arrival. You know how gossipy they are about a new person.”

They weren’t the only ones. Grams was probably the conductor on this gossip train.

“Peggy and Wendy told me he was hot.”

“Oh yeah. He’s definitely hot. Do you think…”

She trailed off, wondering if she should broach this subject with Grams. Especially when she didn’t have all the information yet. Brooke would no doubt kill her for even thinking it. Despite how much Brooke annoyed the shit out of her, she was her sister, and there was no way she wanted to see her in a bad, unhealthy relationship.

“Spit it out, girl,” Grams said, an impatient tone to her voice.

“Never mind,” Lauren said, shaking her head.

“Do I think what?” Grams prodded.

Lauren scooted forward on the bed. “Do you think Brooke and Lucas’s relationship is healthy?”

“Of course it’s not healthy,” Grams said. “They met at work. I told her not to date a coworker, but did she listen? I swear, that one with her head in the clouds and romance on the brain. Not to mention that Lucas’s snobby parents own the company.

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