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“Vee?”
She snarled, hitting the button a little too forcefully. “Get the fuck out of here, Beau.”
“I can explain. Please let me do that.”
“Nope,” she shot back. “I won’t be falling for that again.”
“I’m demanding a paternity test.”
Laughing derisively, she replied, “Trying to shirk your responsibilities?
You’re fucking pathetic, Beau. Why don’t you just run back to Lisa and play happy families like you always wanted to?”
“Goddamn it, Vee, will you just listen to me?”
That sobered her. Dully, she said, “No, I won’t. Not again.” Never again.
Stumbling into her room, she shut her door to block out the sound of the buzzer ringing and turned on some music. Staring at the sheets, still messed up from before she’d left for work, a sudden anger rose in her. In a frenzy, she ripped the blankets and sheets from the bed, barely repressing the urge to set the damn things on fire. She collapsed onto her bed, staring up at the ceiling and wondering what the fuck she was going to do now. Well, one thing was for sure, she sure as shit wasn’t going to fall for another guy’s lies and promises. No, from now on, she was going to do one-night stands and that was it. Was it a guaranteed way to eternal happiness? Of course not, but it was the only solution that wouldn’t hurt her.
* * *
“Oh my god.”
Those are the words that Evangeline startled awake to. Squinting, she looked around the room, her vision clearing enough for her to see Natasha standing there, one hand anchored onto her hip.
“Did you bring alcohol?”
“Ah, no,” her friend said, walking into the room and flopping down beside her on the bed. “I did come with a shoulder you could cry on though.”
“How did you find out?”
“That asshole, Beau, called me onyourphone. And girl, you have got to put a better password on there if people can guess it in ten seconds. Anyway, he called and told me to come by and see you. He said it was an emergency.” Propping herself up on her elbow, she stared down at Vee. “And by the looks of it, he wasn’t wrong.” She dropped back down onto her back, her hands resting on her stomach. “So tell me all about it, Vee.”
Evangeline stared at the ceiling, her eyes following a crack in the plaster as it snaked from the light, fitting in the center out to the window. She opened her mouth, closed it, then cleared her throat, already knowing her voice would be scratchy once she did figure out the right words to say.
“Beau got his ex pregnant.”
Natasha sat up, the words, “That motherfucker,” out of her mouth within a heartbeat. “I’ll gut the bastard.”
Evangeline turned to look at her. “He knew for a week—afucking week—and he didn’t tell me.” Tears were beginning to sting the back of her eyes and she covered her face with her arm.
“Has he tried to talk to you?”
“He came around before, but I refused to let him in.”
“Do you really think that’s it? He’s given up?”
“Honestly, I don’t know. I hope he has. I don’t want to see him again.”
Natasha lay back down, resuming the same position as before. “I don’t blame you for that. So what can I do to help? If you tell me go out drinking, I won’t be caught dead with you looking like that. What the fuck are you wearing anyway?”
Evangeline tugged at her shirt. “What’s wrong with this?”
“Nothing, if you intend to burn it. Like now. Oh,can weburn it now?”
She rolled her eyes. “All I really need right now is enough alcohol to make me forget for just a little while longer.”
Her best friend grinned. “Oh, that, I can do. Be right back.” Natasha slid from the bed, the apartment doorsnickingshut a moment later.
