River's Destiny (River's End Series, #8) by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis
Published: 2018-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

CAMI KEPT HER HEAD down, wishing she could bury her face in her hands. His words rolled like an errant rock off the top of a cliff, falling onto her parents and him. The roof caved in on her confidence. Her shame over how angry she made Charlie, as well as the negative reactions to her news by everyone who heard it, silenced the room. Stunned and shocked, the subsequent barrage of predictable questions soon followed.

“What about school?” Jack.

“Oh, Charlie, no,” Erin sympathized.

Then AJ stood up without a word. His abrupt movement made Cami’s gaze follow him. Clenching his jaw, he stared at her, his eyes turning hard and unforgiving before he simply walked past her and out the front door. He slammed the door hard enough to shake the door frame. She immediately felt like curling up into a small ball and letting the tears fall without further restraint. But Charlie’s words of admonition were still fresh, and right there in front of her. She had to stop being a child. Grow up. Find the strength within herself and stop relying on him to make her feel better.

No matter how bad AJ might have made her feel.

Charlie leaned down and dropped his hand to her shoulder, and Cami glanced up at him gratefully. “What are you going to do?” Jack repeated.

“We’ll have the baby and figure out how to raise it and pay for everything while I finish school.”

“Charlie, you don’t know how hard what you’re saying will be in practice.”

He cleared his throat. “I have a pretty good idea.”

“I mean, it’s not like you’re too young or anything… I just hoped you would have waited a bit longer,” Erin added.

“Well, life doesn’t happen like that.”

Cami lifted her gaze finally and dared to look at Kate. Kate was strangely and uncharacteristically quiet and her face was wet with tears. Surprised, Cami stared at her, open-mouthed, and asked, “Why are you crying?” Her simmering anger laced her words. She wasn’t eighteen or sixteen years old, and for goodness sakes, not thirteen either. She was twenty-three years old now. Their insistence on receiving it as such tragic news was their own choice. Lots of women had babies at her age. Why so much shock and dismay?

“I just wanted more for you.”

“You wanted me to live your life.” Cami snapped. She was sick and tired of people telling her how to feel and how wrong it was to have a baby now. There was so much more the world had to offer and more that she should want, but for Cami, this was so much more. Better than anything she could imagine herself wanting more. This was everything. This was a growing life. Safely developing inside of her.

“Are you two getting married then?”

“No,” Charlie answered quickly. Way too quickly and sharply for Cami’s preference. “No. We’ll just continue exactly as we have been until the baby is born. Then we’ll decide what to do.”

Jack shook his head. “Okay. I guess there isn’t much more I can say to that.

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