Epilogue
Jessica
We had dinner with Adam and Lainey at Maxfield’s a few nights later. The second we walked in, Lainey jumped up from her seat and wrapped her arms around me.
“I am so sorry,” she whispered then pulled back so she could look me in the eye. “I didn’t know what to do! It wasn’t my place, and it’s not just something you blab about, and—”
“I’m sorry, too. I was embarrassed to be the last to know, but I should’ve given you the benefit of the doubt.” I threw a dirty look at Alan. “And he shouldn’t have put you in that position to begin with.”
“Yeah, I messed up,” he replied as he put Ruthie’s car seat on the ground next to his chair. “I owned it; you forgave me, we’re in love. The end.”
“I hope that’s not the end!”
“You’re right. You forgave me, we’re in love, we’re going to have lots and lots of babies and grow old together at our house on the Cape. The end.”
“That’s better.”
That made Adam and Lainey both grin.
“About damn time you admitted it,” Adam grumbled.
Lainey grabbed my hands. “So, does that mean you’ll come back to the bakery?”
I slowly shook my head. “I can’t. I’m moving to Lancastle.”
Her eyes got big. “You are? Congratulations!”
Alan added, “And she’s starting school in January.”
Spoiler alert: I didn’t start school in January.
I was pregnant.