Page 98 of Man Seeking Woman

Chapter Twenty-five

Ella

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“Where's August?” Kayasked as I walked up to her outside the coffee shop. “You're not having dinner with him tonight?”

“No, he has a meeting tonight with a new customer. I guess there's some chain that's about to start building around here from the west coast, August is hoping to get the liquor rights for his beer there.”

“Wow, I can't believe he let you out of his sight with it being so close to the baby being born. How much longer do you have now?”

“A week or so.”

“Holy crap, that happened fast!”

“Right, I was super ready for this baby to be out weeks ago, but now that it's right here, I'm terrified.”

Kayla pulled her phone out of her purse and was tapping against the screen as we walked inside the coffee shop. Keeping her head down, she said, “I'd be scared too, your vagina is going to explode like an egg from one of those alien movies.”

“That's comforting, thank you.” Giving her a shove with my shoulder, Kay's eyes stayed on her phone as she gave a half paying attention giggle. “Who are you texting—Justin?”

“Yeah, he just wants to know how long I'll be and if I'll bring him dinner.”

“Oh.”

“Why do you say it like that?”

“I didn't say it like anything.”

“Yes you did,” Kayla said, giving me that accusatory stare. “Are you still not over this whole hate on Justin bit yet?”

“Kayla he's just a jerk, I'm sorry.”

“We've been dating for months now with no issues, not one fight, nothing.”

Rolling my eyes, I squeezed my bulbous gut into the booth. “Yeah, because you don't say anything to him, you just do what he wants. Like right now, let me guess; you told him you'd be home in an hour and asked him what he wanted?”

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