Page 37 of Heartbreak Hero

For a Sunday, the place was pretty busy. Although most people preferred to shop online, some people actually enjoyed going to the mall and she was one of them.

Sara didn’t feel guilty about it at all. So what if she loved to shop? It was her hard-earned money. Being a manager at a high-end lounge in the heart of the city helped. Plus, she had money saved from when she ran her salon.

Which reminded her, she needed to decide what to do with the place.

“Furniture first?” Mandy asked.

“Let’s leave that for last or we’ll be going back to the car.”

“True. How about Nordstrom’s to check out their shoes?”

“You read my mind.” Sara linked her arm with Mandy as they walked.

The large form of a man caught Sara’s gaze and she would have sworn it was Levi, but as they drew near, the man disappeared.

She gazed around as they neared Nordstrom’s and caught sight of another man who was fit, wore expensive clothes, and browsed casually, window shopping. It wasn’t Levi , but the way the man moved reminded her of him.

“What’s wrong?” Mandy asked, coming back to where she had stopped in the doorway.

Sara turned to her friend. “I just thought I saw someone I knew.”

“Oh?” Mandy glanced in the direction of the man, but when Sara glanced over, he was gone. Perhaps it had been her imagination. Perhaps she had noticed big handsome men because of her day spent with Levi.

“My mistake,” she said, and they entered the store.

Ten minutes later, Mandy was trying on her second pair of pumps while Sara tried for something more casual with a pair of new sneakers.

“One thing I need to do when we leave here is get a pregnancy test,” Sara whispered to Mandy.

“Why?” Her friend blinked in surprise.

“Because the one under your sink was expired.”

“Do they expire?”

“Yes, they do, and the results can be less than accurate,” Sara quoted from her online search.

“Oh, good grief. So, you still haven’t started your period?” Mandy hissed softly.

“Nope.”

Sara shared a grimace with Mandy and tried on another pair of sneakers.

If she left it too much longer, then she would be past the point of no return.

And really, who was she kidding?

The flat-out question was could she have an abortion if she was pregnant? It was a controversial belief in society that women had the right to choose. And they did, but she knew in her heart she would keep the baby.

The child wasn’t to blame for her mistake.

More than once she reminded herself,you made the same mistake numerous times.

Did Levi think she was on birth control? Was that why he didn’t use a condom? And the main question was…why didn’t she tell him she wasn’t using a preventative?

Granted, the first time she’d been drunk, but the second, third, fourth? There was no excuse.

“Sara?” a voice that wasn’t Mandy’s called her name.

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