Andie . . .
“Fuck,” I curse under my breath as I remember that she’s supposed to be meeting me in my office at lunch. What I had planned can’t go ahead, not when I expect us to be watched.
Once I’ve grabbed everything from my office, it will have to become a no go area for the rest of the day because there is no way I’ll be able to keep my hands to myself if she shows up there, or anywhere else for that matter.
Disheartened and missing Andie already, I quickly head to my office before I have to hide for the day.
21
Andie
“Why the frown?” Jeremy asks.
Today I seem to have spent more time with him than I have in a long while.
“I’m just wondering where Sawyer disappeared to.” I shrug, trying to act as though I don’t care when I’m hurt. “He hasn’t responded to any messages either. Not since I replied in the coffee shop after he’d seen me with you.”
“Maybe he’s busy.”
“I don’t know.” I tap my phone on my bottom lip. “I think it’s more than that. He never stands me up without messaging me. I’m worried.”
Jeremy wraps his arm around my shoulders and gives me a quick hug. “Talk to him Andie. Don’t just presume, okay? And now, I have to go.” He winks, followed with a grin. “I have a date.”
I return his smile because I’m happy that he isn’t still hung up on me, if he ever really was.
As I watch him go, I wonder what’s really going on with Sawyer because it’s so out of character for him to be out of contact. I don’t want to seem like an obsessed girlfriend, but I need to know what’s going on with him and why I’m getting the silent treatment. Surely it can’t be because of earlier in the coffee shop. I won’t believe that unless he tells me otherwise.
There is something though and it won’t stop eating at me that
something is wrong. Really wrong.
While I’m contemplating my next move, my cell starts buzzing against my lips.
I don’t even look to see who it is because I know it won’t be Sawyer.
“Hello?”
“Andie, it’s Kasey.” He pauses. “You need to come home.”
My heart drops at hearing those words. “My mom?”
“She’s gone into labor and there are a few complications. I think she’d like you there.”
“Oh God!” I cry and sob into the phone.
“Listen to me. I know it’s a shock but there is so much that they can do. The baby is eight weeks early and has a good chance of survival. You’re mom’s age isn’t on her side right now, okay? But I think having you here will help her.”
Pulling myself together, I whisper, “I’ll get a flight.”
“Text me your flight details and I’ll come get you.”
“Thanks, Kasey.” Hanging up, I stare off into space before I suddenly realize that I need to get moving.
* * *
Darkness surrounds us as Kasey drives me to the hospital in Great Falls. It isn’t far from the airport and worry eats at me.
We haven’t said a lot to each other, but Kasey said that my mom has improved since he called. I never thought I’d see the day when she’d have another baby. As a child I used to ask Santa for a baby sister, eventually I stopped when I discovered how babies actually got inside their mother.