The Followers by Bradeigh Godfrey

Author:Bradeigh Godfrey [Godfrey, Bradeigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

@InvincibleMollySullivan

For the next few days, Molly successfully put the birth certificates out of her mind. She focused on her family, on Chloe and Ella, and on Scott when he was home. Work somehow fit in around that, though it wasn’t going well. Another sponsor pulled out, citing the waning engagement on Molly’s account. She wanted to blame the ever-changing algorithm on the decreased reach of her posts, but her comments were down, too, indicating that her followers were losing interest.

Summer wasn’t even halfway over, and she was already feeling the doldrums. While her Instagram story showed trips to the pool and park and zoo, it didn’t show all the dead time in between. The long, hot afternoons. The bickering between the girls. The forty-seventh time she’d restaked the damn slip-n-slide. Sometimes she wondered how she was going to survive until the girls started school and their beautiful teachers took them away.

Thank heavens for Liv. Molly was ever so grateful to have another adult to hang out with when Scott was gone. Because they were both new in town, it was the perfect opportunity to explore the area together. Liv was quiet and introspective, qualities Molly admired because she’d always been the exact opposite. Plus, she got along great with the girls, especially Ella, who was slowly coming out of her shell.

Today they were lounging at the neighborhood pool together, drinking Diet Coke while watching the girls swim. Liv looked tiny and surprisingly curvy in a black bikini and sunglasses, making Molly feel matronly in her floral one-piece. But she’d recently written a call-to-action Instagram post entitled Dare to Show Up (In a Swimsuit) so she felt obligated to follow her own advice, despite cellulite and spider veins.

“How’s your job?” she asked Liv. She needed someone else to talk to her, about anything. She was tired of listening to her own thoughts. “Is Mr. DeLuigi still trying to look down your shirt whenever you work with him?”

She expected Liv to laugh; she just shook her head. Liv was always reserved, but something in her expression seemed off, like she was miles away.

“Is everything okay?” Molly asked.

“I’m fine.”

She didn’t seem fine, though. “You sure?”

Liv hesitated, then shrugged. “Um, I’m having a little . . . guy trouble.”

Molly set her Diet Coke down and leaned in, intrigued. “You didn’t tell me there was a guy! What’s going on?”

Liv’s porcelain-white cheeks turned pink. “He asked me out a few weeks ago and I thought we had a good time, but the date didn’t end well. I figured he didn’t like me. Then he showed up at my apartment the next morning, wanting to go on a run with me.”

“You run? You didn’t tell me that, either.” Molly realized how little Liv shared about herself, while Molly felt like she’d blabbed about everything under the sun to Liv.

“That’s how we met. Well, I met him at a coffee shop first, but a few days later we saw each other out on a run.”

“Very cute.” Cute for Liv, that is.

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