Rules We Break by Isaly Dana

Author:Isaly, Dana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

We couldn’t find a single Chinese place open, but we did find an amazing late-night barbecue place that was close by. They didn’t deliver, so Ivy sent her car to go get it for us. I tried to tell her that wasn’t really what he was on call for, but she shooed me away, saying he loved her and would happily go get her drunk ass some food.

“So,” she says between bites. “Tell me what I’ve missed in your life. How are your friends? Anything new and exciting?”

“Well, Aurora had a baby. That’s Owen’s and Hudson’s partner. Turns out she got pregnant during that Tokyo trip, actually.” I laugh, thinking about how they all really wanted a kid, and boom, they got one.

“Aww.” She smiles. “Boy or girl?”

“Girl. Lucia, but she goes by Lucy most days. Cutest little thing. Almost gives me baby fever…almost.”

“Mm,” she hums. “They’ll do that when you’re able to hold them while they coo and giggle but give them back once they start acting up.”

“Jack and Quin have been trying for the past year, but…” I trail off. It’s not something they really talk about with us. We all know they’re trying, and we know that seeing the happy family with their brand-new baby is rough. “They might try IVF next year. I think Quinlan is just trying to decide if she wants to put her body through that.”

Ivy nods, her face serious. “I’ve heard the side effects can be brutal. Pregnancy is hard enough on a woman’s body. Have they thought about adopting?”

I shrug. “They don’t talk about it often. Not that I blame them. It’s not our business, but I do think about them a lot. If I was a praying man, I would pray for them.”

“Lucky for you, I am. I’ll add them in.”

“What?” I feel like she just slapped me. She has never, ever let on that she is a religious woman. The subject has never come up, and in my experience, Christians try to throw it into every conversation they can.

“Don’t be so dramatic.” She laughs. “I’m not going to try to convert you. Your faith, or lack thereof, is not something to fix.”

“No, it just—it caught me off guard. I don’t think you’ve ever brought it up before. I figured it would have in the time we spent together.”

She shrugs and takes another bite of barbecue.

“Like I said, I’m not here to convert you. I believe in God, you don’t. Not a big deal, Gregory.” She gives me a teasing look.

“You never said anything about Pyro and his…situation.” I can’t get past it. I grew up in a religious family, and I know just how intolerant they can be. Especially when it comes to people like Pyro, Owen, and Aurora. But she never said a thing. She always accepted them like they were people.

It’s such a stark difference to what I’m used to it’s hard to connect the dots in my mind.

“Why wouldn’t I?” she asks. “They’re people. I’m not a bigot or a homophobe.

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