Chapter 148
Everly 4 months later
It was scorching hot today, and Macey, Ava, Zoe, and I had just left from the final dress fitting. It wasn’t my dress that needed altering, but Zoe’s this time. Her growing baby bump was getting bigger every day.
“I just need to grab bread and milk. I don’t feel like stopping after getting Valarian from school,” I tell the girls as we step out of the bridal store. “I’ll come; I need to grab a few things too,” Macey says, slipping her sunglasses on. Zoe pulled the sunshade over the stroller, and we walked the short distance to the shopping center. It was easier to walk than wrangle all three girls in the car and the stroller. Walking into the shops, I sigh as the cold air conditioning sweeps over us.
We walk through the shopping center when Macey shrieks, making us all nearly jump out of our skin when she takes off toward a store. “Man, this baby has more clothes than I do at this point,” Zoe whines as Macey bounces on her heels, holding up a blue Winnie the Pooh onesie.
“No, Macey, please! I am running out of places to put all his clothes,” Zoe whines, but Macey wasn’t hearing it as she wandered into the store. I waited out the front, the store was much too small for me to navigate the stroller around.
When Macey comes out, she is holding two bags full of baby boy clothes.
“You’re impossible,” Zoe tells her, but she thanks her anyway. “So, have you and Tatum had any luck yet?” Ava asks her, nudging me aside and taking over the pushing of the stroller.
“No. We met one surrogate the other week, but Doc said the chances of finding a she-wolf to donate her eggs is near impossible. So we thought of adopting,” she sighs, and I nibble my lip. Tatum and Macey wanted a child, and Macey wanted to give Tatum his own child, but her options were limited.
And besides human donor eggs, she had had no luck.
“The surrogate?” Zoe asks.
sound mind to carry and hand the child over at the end,”
to be,” she states as we walk into the grocer. I grab a few groceries, so does Macey. I was excited to get home, and poor Zoe’s feet were so swollen from standing all day, so I knew she wanted to get home too.
after the attack from Nixon, but as soon as she was better, she left the hospital. And I had no idea where she
Zoe whispers as she scans her minimal items. Macey
down in the dumps bothered me. This was not the Amber we were accustomed to. The clerk bags our items when I hear her self serve register go off, saying her card declined. My stomach sinks, and I peer over to see what she is buying, only to find canned food and toilet paper. Was she really struggling that
whispers, nudging me and nodding toward
her position wouldn’t care for the girl after all the heartache she sat by and kept tight lipped about. But we knew exactly
face, and Zoe nods to me. Crossing over to the self-serve area, she tries her card again, only for it to decline before turning to the girl overseeing to ask her to remove
I approach her. She was wary
the machine. Her cheeks flame as I pay for the few things
to do
And those that claim they never have, are liars.” I tell her when I feel someone brush up against me. Amber steps back, and I notice it
Zoe tells her. Amber takes the card and looks at it.
shocked. “Why?” she
was Macey that answered
see Ava
I tell her, turning to leave her be. Zoe wanders off over to Ava. I turn to follow
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