Key To My Heart: Stay by Misty Reigenborn Read Free Book Online Page B

wanted him. Her body came alive at his touch. He thought
she was in love with him, but sometimes he wasn’t sure, so he
didn’t tell her he loved her.
    He couldn’t stand the thought of losing
her. Every plan he made involved her. He even thought about her
before he went to the grocery store, making sure that he bought
things she liked to eat. He liked to cook for her. He liked that
she listened to him, really listened to him. He could be himself
when he was around her, talk to her about anything. Well, almost
anything. Gavin certainly wasn’t a good subject to bring up with
her.
    He wanted her to know how much she
meant to him, but he wasn’t sure how without telling her that he
loved her. So he tried to show her, but he wasn’t sure that it was
working. She seemed to be pulling away from him already, and he
wished that she’d talk to him about whatever it was that was on her
mind.

 
    Acasia
    The other shoe dropped a few weeks
later when Acasia realized she had missed her period. She drove to
the next town over to buy a pregnancy test, knowing that if she was
seen purchasing one in Clinton, word would be back to Garett before
she had even taken the test, and that was the last thing she wanted
to happen. If she had to tell him she was pregnant, she damned sure
wanted to be the one to tell him herself, not to have him hear it
through the grapevine.
    The test was positive. She stood
looking at it for a long moment, wondering if it was possible she
could have read it backwards. But of course it wasn’t. She and
Garett were having a baby, and sooner or later she would have to
tell him.
    She sighed when she heard Garrett’s
ringtone come from her phone. She knew that she needed to talk to
him, but all she wanted to do at the moment was run away. Either
that or curl up on her mother’s lap and cry and there was no way in
hell she was going to do that. Besides the fact that she was almost
thirty and too old to be crying in her mother’s arms, she was
bigger than her mother and could hardly curl up on her lap like a
child anyway.
    How in the hell could I let myself end
up pregnant now she thought as she flicked the icon on her screen
to ignore the phone call. She loved Garrett, but she was scared to
death of having a child, and she had no idea what in the hell she
was going to do. She knew that Garrett loved her too, even if they
hadn’t yet exchanged the words, but the fact that she was pregnant
so soon after they had gotten together complicated things even
further. Why was she continually screwing things up she
wondered?
    The tone chimed on her phone to let her
know that her boyfriend had left a message. She pushed the button
to dial her voicemail, hearing Garrett’s cheerful voice “Hey baby.
I guess you’re busy. I know that you’re off work for the next few
days and I was hoping that we could get together. I’ll make you
dinner. Call me back as soon as you can. Bye baby.”
    Acasia sighed as she pressed the number
to delete the message. Tears stung her eyes. She felt helpless and
the thought of running away for a few days sounded wonderful. She
booted up her laptop and wondered if she had enough money in her
bank account to afford to get away for a few days. She checked her
account balance and figured that she could afford an economy motel
room. Part of her wanted to call Garrett as she booked the motel
room, but the rest of her wanted nothing more than to run away from
everything, and to try to figure out what the hell she was going to
do about the situation she had gotten herself into.
    Her mother was out with Alisa Black, so
she didn’t have to explain herself to her mother at least. For
safety’s sake, especially since her body had become more than her
own, she left her mother a note, telling her where she was going,
and that she loved her.
    She sat in her car for a moment, her
head on the steering wheel. She had teased Demi when Demi had told
her that she was pregnant, telling her that she was almost