Page 102 of The Hookup
“Still, at least it keeps you out of mischief, I suppose,” Savannah said.
“Sorry.” She felt doubly awful now. Especially given that Savannah only had a few months to go before she had her baby, and Kay had only seen her a couple of times. She’d spent more time with Luke, and was certain that her cousin deserved her loyalty more than Luke did. “Things are just so full on right now.”
“I hope you’ll be able to make some time for me once the babies come.”
“I hope so. May, right?” She rubbed her neck, and wondered when she would have time to schedule in an all over body massage. Her body was falling apart. Long days at work and checking in on Luke made life stressful. She was always rushing around.
“Early May,” Savannah replied.
“I’ll try and come over and see you before the baby comes,” she promised, making a mental note to herself to spend some time with Savannah. “Iwillmake it up to you. I’ll do lots of babysitting.” How had time slipped by and she saw less of her cousin even though they lived in the same city?
“Before thebabiescome.”
“Right,” she doodled some circles in red biro on the draft copy of the report she was checking. Tonight, she hadn’t gone to see Luke even though passing by his place was becoming as familiar as going home to her own apartment.
Luke’s hard edges had softened. He seemed almost a different man in some respects, and she wasn’t sure if it was the illness that had given him a new perspective on life, or that he was just more tired, and not as blunt anymore. Either way, she definitely preferred the new him.
“You’re not listening to me, are you?” Savannah asked.
“I am,” she insisted, putting down her report. “Of course I am.”
“So the news about the twins doesn’t have you excited at all?”
Twins?“What?” She sat up, then sat forward, then stood up, holding her hand to her forehead wondering if she’d heard right. “You’re expectingtwins?”
“Yay!” whooped Savannah. “It only took three tries.”
“Twins?” Kay repeated, trying to wrap her head around the idea of two babies, and failing. “How? How…”
“I know, unbelievable, right?” said Savannah, in her most calm and level-headed voice.
“You must be huge!”
“Like a whale, and then some.”
She paced around the living room, imagining Savannah’s world being turned upside down by three children.
Freaking hell.
Married, and with three children already.
Her mother was never going to stop talking about this. Come to think of it, it had been a while since she’d called her mom to catch up on things. She had let everything go, all her closest relationships, and spent the most time with a man she was going to ditch the moment he recovered. She was getting used to the calmer, more laid back Luke, but she wanted a future, and she wasn’t sure he was the man who could give her one.
“Has Briony managed to get a hold of you?” Savannah asked. “She was asking me for your number again.”
“Ugh,” Kay groaned, rubbing a hand to her forehead. Briony had called and left her a message, which she had listened to and promptly forgotten about. “She did call, and she left a message...” Freaking hell. She was neglecting everything. At this rate she’d have no cousin or friends left. “I’ll call her, I promise.”
“I’m glad to hear it’s not only me that you’ve forgotten.”
“I haven’t forgotten you,” Kay replied defensively. “I’ve been…busy.”
“Come over,” Savannah offered. “Come over and we’ll catch up. No point me waddling over to yours. Come tonight.”
“I can’t. I have…”
“So much on,” said Savannah, finishing her sentence for her. “You sound like Tobias did when I first met him.”
“How is he?” she asked.
