Page 74 of The Bonus

“Yeah.” He shrugs. “Shocked me too, if I’m honest.”

“What was the date?”

“I have no idea, it was…” He frowns as he thinks. “I saw her at the Apple convention in Vermont.”

“When was that?”

“No idea, but it was in the year we both left, I know that because I was still living in Manhattan, I remember I moved the weekend after the show.”

Hmm…I sip my scotch as I think.

Rodney keeps talking and I take out my phone and google,

Date of Apple convention in Vermont

The date pops up.

July

July…

We were together in the December of the year before.

Hmm.

Weird…

That’s seven months after we slept together, so she was already pregnant at the time…or…

“What do you think?” Rodney says. I glance up, I haven’t heard a word he’s been saying.

“I’m sorry, I’m here with my mother. It was lovely seeing you again.” I cut him off and hold my hand out to shake his.

“Oh…” His face falls. “Of course. Good to see you again.”

Liar.

“Goodbye.” I march back to my table and sit down; my mind is racing a million miles per minute.

She was seven months pregnant when he saw her, seven months after we spent the night together.

Couldn’t be…

“I ordered for you,” Alessio says.

“Grazie.” I take out my phone and text Mark.

Find Grace Porter

Grace

“Find your ballet shoes, bubba,” I call as I spread the peanut butter onto my piece of toast.

“Where are they?” Lucy calls from upstairs.

“They should be in your closet,” I call back.

I hear things hitting the wall as she throws things out of her way to look. “They’re not.”

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