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Chapter Twenty-Nine

Allysa drops ont o the couch bes ide me and R ylee. “I miss you so
much, Lily,” she says. “I’m thi nk ing about coming back to work a day
or two a week .”
I laugh, a little sho cked by her comment . “I live downs tairs and I

visit almost ev er y day. How can you possibly miss me?”
She pouts as she pulls her leg s up benea th her. “Fine, it’s not you I
miss. I miss work. And somet imes I just want out of thi s ho use. ”
It’s been six week s sinc e she ha d R ylee, so I’m sure she would be
clea red to come back to work. But I ho nes tly didn’t thi nk she’d ev en

want to come back no w tha t she ha s R ylee. I bend for ward and give
R ylee a kiss on her no se. “Would you bring R ylee with you?”
Allysa sha kes her hea d. “No, you keep me too busy for tha t.
Marsha ll can watch her whi le I work.”
“You mea n you don’t ha ve people for tha t?”
Marsha ll is passing thro ugh the living room when he hea rs me say
tha t. “Shu sh, Lily. Don’t spea k like a rich girl in front of my daught er.

Blasphemy .”
I laugh. Tha t’s why I come over here a few ni ght s a week , bec ause
it’s the onl y time I laugh. It’s been six week s sinc e R yle lef t for
Eng land , and no one kno ws wha t ha ppened bet ween us. R yle ha sn’t
told any one, and nei ther ha ve I. Ever yone, my mother inc luded ,
bel iev es he simply lef t for the study at Cambridge and that no thi ng

ha s cha ng ed bet ween us.
I also still ha ven’t told any one about the preg na nc y.
I’ve been to the doctor twice. It turns out I was alrea dy twel ve week s
along the ni ght I found out I was preg na nt , whi ch makes me ei ght een
week s along no w. I’m still trying to wrap my hea d around it. I’ve been
on the pill sinc e I was ei ght een. Apparent ly bei ng forgetful a few
times caught up with me.