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“What?” Kendra asked, and Lily passed her the phone.
My eyes drifted back and forth between the two of them as they stared at their phones. Kendra sighed heavily before passing me her phone.
Skylar’s Instagram post was a pregnancy announcement. I scanned the posts. The main picture was of her and Grant, his arms wrapped around her, and their fingers pressed together in the shape of a heart with the caption “Coming Soon.”
Stunned, I read the post and looked through the photos. Would this have set him over the edge if Luc didn’t want kids? Was this why they split up?
“The fucker isn’t over his ex,” Lily said. Her anger turned her tone icy. “He never should have gotten involved with you if he was still pining for his ex-wife.”
“Oh, come on, Lily. Don’t tell me you’ve never had a rebound relationship.” Kendra said.
“No. I had a rebound one-night stand. But you don’t get someone else’s emotions involved if you’re not emotionally available.”
I rolled back onto my side and stared at the wall as my sister and best friend argued about Luc. Something deep inside me wasn’t angry, but worried that he was hurt. The suddenness of the ending made it very difficult for me to explain to my heart that Luc was no longer a safe place for me.
I couldn’t hate him as immediately or powerfully as my sister and my best friend. My heart was a little slow to catch up with what my head knew was true.
Handing Lily my phone, I pointed to my last text to him.
“Do you think he blocked me?”
Lily’s face fell, and she looked at Kendra for support.
She nodded. “Yeah. I’m sorry, Ky.”
“I was finally going to introduce him to my parents?—”
The words were not even out of my mouth before a fresh wave of sobs wracked my body. They stayed with me long after I had cried myself to sleep.
CHAPTER 40
LUC
Jake had arrived the next morning, and I met him at the door with a packed suitcase.
“What did you do, bro?”
I averted my eyes, and he pulled me in for a hug. Sagging into him, a long, hard breath shuddered out of me.
“I gotta get out of here for a bit.”
“Going to Florida?”
“Yeah.”
I had less than a month before spring training, and I couldn’t stick around in Boston. Everything reminded me of Kylie.
After she had run out, I blocked her number and changed the front door code. Even with Jake’s arrival, I booked a flight to Florida, planning to spend the rest of the off-season in our family’s house in Destin.
“I hope it gives you what you need.”
Me too.I thought to myself.
“Denise, my neighbor, will be by to take care of Liam when you need her. I left her number on the table.”
Jake nodded and dragged his suitcase inside as I rolled mine to the curb where an Uber waited.
“I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.”
