![]() ![]() The big guy’ll take care of you.Īt his words her windpipe constricted and the seat beneath her seemed to drop away. Relax, he said and gave her the lopsided smile, the one that used to make her stomach flutter but now only made her doubt his intelligence. She’d been reclining in her seat and concentrating on her breathing the way her YWCA classes had taught her, but now she sat up and glared at her husband in disbelief. ![]() ![]() If only she hadn’t been so stubborn.īy the time she realized where they were, Brad was steering them toward the forest, the wheel ruts embracing their tires like a pair of obsessive lovers. ![]() Knocking a girl up doesn’t make a boy fit for marriage. Mom called it, she thought for the thousandth time. It was irritating enough that he’d chosen this circuitous route to Ravana, but the fact Brad was more interested in playing unfunny tricks than he was in getting his pregnant wife – hell, his delivering wife – to the hospital spoke volumes about his lack of maturity. But when the car actually started to slow, she said, Not funny, though a contraction reduced her words to a whisper. Susan saw Brad signal a left turn and figured he was just making a joke in bad taste. ![]()
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