Off the Hook: Faking it #3 by Chloe Walsh

Author:Chloe Walsh [Walsh, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-31T18:30:00+00:00

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Chapter Five

Andi

"ASSHOLES!" IVY SCREAMED AS she stomped back and forth in her bedroom the following morning.

She'd just gotten off the phone with the deputy on duty at the station and we were still none the wiser as to the whereabouts of our boyfriends.

"They can't just do this," she seethed. "There has to be some sort of law against this bullshit."

"Sheriff Brady is the law around here," I whispered dejectedly. I was actually pretty stunned that the Sheriff or my father hadn't come here and hauled me home already. Mom must have told him by now. "And my father makes the rules."

We had been over this already; it was why neither of us had gotten a wink of sleep last night. Ivy and I had talked for hours, desperately trying to hatch a plan to get me out of the mess I was in. After several hours of talking and plotting, we had come up empty.

"What bullshit," she shot back angrily. "What absolute fucking bull shit."

She was right.

It was crap.

It was worse than crap; it was sort of terrifying to know my father held this sort of power over the officers of our town.

"Someone needs to take your parent's down a peg or two," Ivy added, seeming to read my thoughts.

"I should go home," I whispered glumly from my perch on her bed. "The guys are being punished because of me." I swallowed deeply. "If I go home, maybe they'll –"

"Over my dead body are you going back to those freaks," Ivy countered evenly.

"What am I supposed to do, Ives?" I shot back weakly. "Hide out in your bedroom until I give birth?" I shook my head and forced down a sob. The thought of being pregnant still felt alien to me. "I am in so much trouble… and without my father's health insurance and money, I'm as good as de –"

"Don’t you dare say that," Ivy snapped heatedly. "Nothing's going to happen to you, Andi Davis. I won't allow it."

"I thought you didn’t care." The words were out of my mouth before I had a chance to censor them or take them back.

Ivy flinched like I had physically slapped her. "Ouch."

"I'm sorry," I mumbled, red faced.

"I deserved it," she replied in a pained voice. "I've been a shitty friend to you, but I'm trying to fix it, Andi. I'm going to make it up to you."

She had been a shitty friend to me, but the sincerity and sheer guilt in her voice made me want to believe her.

"I don’t know what to do," I squeezed out, changing the subject from our strained friendship to my broken world. "I'm really scared, Ivy." That was the understatement of the century. "I don’t even know how far along I am." My hand automatically dropped to my stomach. "What if there's something wrong with the baby?" I had diabetes. It was hardly a simple illness. "What if something goes wrong…"

"You're going to be fine," she assured me. "Andi, Nathan Cole adores you. He won't see you wrong.

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