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Some of the buzzing started to end. “The baby can’t be mine,” he insisted.

Kalli’s face fell, and Ashton doubted himself. Was this truly his child? The small amount of hope scared the shit out of him.

“Yes, Ashton, this child is yours. But if you don’t want it, I’ll go ahead and terminate the pregnancy,” she said as she turned and began walking from the room. She made it back to the door before he found himself yelling.

“No! If that child is mine, I have a say in this,” he absolutely bellowed.

“I’m not having the child if I’m not married to the father. So make your decision, and make it fast,” she snapped. And then she sashayed away. But not before shooting a death glare at Savvy.

Ashton stumbled backward and sank down into his chair before he looked up to see Savvy shivering in the corner. She appeared to be in shock.

“I’m so sorry, Savvy, so very sorry,” he said.

“It’s okay, Ashton. I understand,” she finally replied, her voice so small.

“I can’t abandon my child.” That was his best attempt to explain.

“I know.”

And Savvy walked out of his life almost as quickly as she’d walked into it.





Chapter Thirty


Who is the best sister in all the land?”

Savannah looked up, her expression not changing even a bit as Alexa rushed into the room, a grin on her face and a piece of paper in her hand. The paper-in-the-hand thing nearly sent Savvy into tears all over again, but she hadn’t cried in a week, and she wasn’t about to start again.

She didn’t honestly understand how a person could cry nonstop for two weeks straight. She had to have no tears left in her system. She also didn’t understand why in the world she had been crying at all. It wasn’t like she was a drama queen, or a woman who threw fits — not ever.

She blamed her excess of emotion on the loss of her job. She hadn’t even thought twice about quitting once Kalli had walked back into Ashton’s life with the one thing she was willing to give him that Savvy wasn’t. At least Alexa had taken her in, even if the place to stay was a very uncomfortable secondhand couch in the world’s smallest apartment.

“You’re the best sister,” Savannah said, doing her best to smile.

“Of course I am. Because I got something for you that is going to get you off my couch for at least the afternoon,” Alexa said, waving the piece of paper around. “Then I will probably have to burn the stupid couch ’cause I don’t think you’ve moved from that exact same spot for the past three weeks,” she muttered.

“I heard that, Lexie.”

“Ah, my sweet big sister, I wasn’t trying to be quiet,” Alexa said with another hop.#p#分页标题#e#

After her sister placed the bit of paper in her hands, Savannah tried to figure out what she was looking at. When it finally hit her, an actual smile almost lifted up her lips.

“How could you afford this, Lexie?”

“Don’t worry about the how and just go jump in the shower and get dressed, and then get the heck out of here for the next twelve hours or so,” Alexa said, tugging on Savvy’s hand.

“It’s for today?”

“Yep, and it’s a one-time deal, so hurry, hurry, hurry,” Alexa said, now pushing against Savvy’s back to thrust her into the bathroom.

“My clothes,” Savannah called out.

“I’m getting them. You shower; I’ll play servant.”

“Are you trying to get rid of me for a particular reason?” Savvy asked through the closed door as she stripped off her pajamas.

“Not at all,” Alexa called back, but Savannah knew only too well when her sister was playing fast and loose with the truth.

“I’m so excited about this, Alexa, that I think I’m going to let you get away with lying to me.”

Then the conversation stopped as Savvy turned on the water and did her best to send her worries down the drain. So what if she’d fallen in love with the wrong man? Didn’t all women have to do that at least once in their life? Of course they did. Even if she was supersmart — and she probably was, if she said so herself — it didn’t mean she never made any mistakes.

Before she knew it she was singing, very off tune, “I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair…” If only it were that easy. At least her sister wasn’t shouting at her through the doorway. Not that yelling at her would stop her mad singing tirade. Savvy decided she might just be going a little bit crazy. Didn’t they say love made a person crazy? She’d been smart not to go through the teenage angst of love. At least she was now a bit wiser and though it was killing her a little bit more and more inside, she knew she would survive this, but as an impressionable teen, she might not have been strong enough.