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The sickness abated and she lifted up andturned to look at him. “My sister.”
She moved back toward the truck, getting acouple of bags.
“The coffee makes her nauseous, asshole,”Dorothy said.
I can do this. I can do this.
The words kept going off like a mantrainside her head. She kept trying to tell herself what shecould do, and that she wasstrong.
Deep breath in and a long breath out.
Eloise grabbed a couple more bags and thenmade her way inside. Dorothy was already heading back toward the truck.
Stepping inside, she saw that Beau was stillthere. The scent of coffee was long gone. She ignored him and gotto work emptying the bags of food. This is what she did everyMonday, even when they were on good terms.
His accusations kept ringing in herhead.
“Eloise, we need to talk,” he said.
“No, we don’t. I don’t need to talk to you.”
He reached out as if to grab her and shedidn’t know where her lightning reflexes had come from, but she wasable to avoid his touch. “Don’t touch me!”
“I’m not going to hurt you.”
“Trust me, Beau, you’ve hurt me plentyalready.”
She was pretty sure he visibly flinched fromher accusation, but she wasn’t interested in helping him, or havinganything else to do with him.
Returning to the food, Dorothy came into thekitchen, as did Rose.
Seeing her friend, she forced a smile toher lips.
No one else spoke as Eloise put the foodaway. When someone attempted to help her, she growled at them toleave it alone. She had a set routine and if they started to messwith it, she wouldn’t know where everything was.
Dorothy took the previousweek’s dishes and bagsout to the truck. Rose hadn’t left and as she turned to look atBeau and Rose, she waited.
“Is this where you fire me?” Eloise asked.“Actually, you know what? I quit.”
“Eloise, don’t,” Rose said.
“You don’t need to quit,” Beau said.
She ignored Beau and looked at Rose. “I’msorry. I thought I would be able to do this, and … I can’t. If youwant me to continue cooking for you then I will, but I need you tocome and collect on Sunday. I will have everything ready foryou.”
“Damn it, Eloise, you and I need totalk.”
“No! I don’t need to talk to you. I don’tneed to do anything with you. This isn’t your baby,remember?” She put ahand on her stomach. “You washed your hands of that, right, andtrust me, I am not going to force you to do something you clearlydon’t want to do.” She turned back to Rose. “If you want to talk,you know where to find me. Let me know what you decide.”
She rushed out of the ranch house,and couldn’t help but noticethat the pack were standing close to the house, but not comingtoward her. They stared at her and she quickly bowed her head andrushed toward the truck.
Dorothy was looking in the rearview mirror.“That’s strange.”
“What is?”
“Well, you know how I love to fuck wolves,well, some of them liketo go into detail about how it is with a pregnant female, andapparently the pack knows when there’s a pregnant female. They arealways close, and they are always ready to protect her. It lookslike that pack wants to protect you, Eloise.”
“They’re there for Beau, not for me.”
