Page 77 of Wolf's Forbidden Curse

I frowned down at the screen.

“All good?” he asked.

“Yeah,” I said. “Diana just texted saying that she’s going to be flying in a day early and bringing that guy with her.”

“And by that guy, you mean her husband?”

“Whatever. Yeah, him.”

He shook his head at me. “I’m not sure why you’re so hard on the poor man. We haven’t even met him.”

“That’s the point!” I said. “Why haven’t we met him?” Even though Diana and I had reconnected almost a year ago and had seen each other a handful of times since I still had never met the man she was married to. I found that very odd, and it led me to distrust him a little.

“He seems to have a very busy job.”

“Nah. I’m not buying it. It doesn’t matter how many years my sister and I spent apart. I can tell when she’s hiding something.”

“Are you going to try to sniff it out while they are here then?”

“I can’t. This trip isn’t about her and her mysterious husband. It’s about me coming clean with my own secret.”

“You’re going to tell her the truth about yourself?”

“About both of us, if that’s okay with you.” I looked to him for confirmation, and he nodded. “Although, I might have to rethink my plan now that I know Andreas will be here.”

“And you can’t talk to Diana with him around?”

I shrugged. “Not really. I’m scared enough telling her.”

“I’m sure it’ll work out okay,” he said. “Worst case scenario, I take the guy out for a beer, and you two ladies chat it out when you’re alone.”

“Yeah, alright… Thanks.”

He took my free hand and squeezed it. “No thanks needed.”

The day before my sister was scheduled to fly in, Rory set up a nice dinner for us at a restaurant in town. I asked him what we were celebrating, and he just said he wanted to go out one last time before my sister came to Solara Bay. I had a feeling he was hiding something, however. He put on his best suit that night and told me to wear an outfit that I felt my absolute best in.

“I feel best in my sweatpants,” I joked.

“Then wear those,” he chuckled. “I just want you to be happy tonight.”

I laughed and went to my closet, picking out a sexy black dress that would probably only fit me for a few more months. If that.

“Why is tonight so important anyway?” I asked as I stepped inside the top of the garment.

“No reason,” he said, but he wouldn’t look me in the eye. Something was going on with him for sure. It wasn’t until we pulled up to the restaurant and I felt a little flutter in my stomach that it hit me.

He must’ve found out about the baby.

This thought rattled around in my brain during the first hour of our dinner. I kept waiting for him to take my hands across the table and tell me that he knew I was pregnant. I hadn’t exactly done a great job of keeping it a secret. The only reason I didn’t tell him right away was because I still hadn’t gone to the doctor to get an official test. Then again, I had peed on about eight sticks from the pharmacy, so it was a pretty sure deal at this point.

But as the evening stretched on, Rory never interrupted our general small talk and chitchat. By the time we ordered dessert, I was thoroughly confused.

“Are you sure there isn’t any other reason you planned this?” I asked, swirling what was left of my iced tea around in the glass a couple of times.

He gave me a sly look. “Why? Do you know something?”

“I don’t know. Do you know something?”

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