THE NIKEL chapter 15

Saundra knew it. She knew something was off but didn't think she was pregnant. They had always been careful. How was she going to tell Life? Was she going to tell him was the real question. She could just hear his boys laughing about how she trapped him. She knew what they thought of her. Bigger than his boy's opinion of her was how she was going to survive eight days at sea when she was already queasy on land? She finally started seriously looking for a space to open the restaurant. She finally got serious about cleaning up her department so that she wouldn't feel so bad when she left. And now she was pregnant. How could she just leave? Start a new business? Saundra incessantly talked to herself the whole day. She asked all sorts of questions. Where would she get insurance? "From the baby's father, stupid." She finally said out loud. "From Life. I'm not the only one having a baby here." But she was for now because she wasn't ready to say anything. Especially with how strange he had been acting. Did he know?

She got in her car and called River. "Hey lady you busy? I'm not far from you, wanna meet me at Simply Wholesome? Veggie burger my treat? K, see you in a minute, I'm just a block away." She knew River would know something was up but she thought River would think that Saundra was just announcing her engagement and to tell her that she was the maid of honor. What would they do? Would she and Life get married? No, no, no. Wedding? That seemed so far away from reality with the way they had been getting along lately. Life must have thought she was a fool or something. She didn't know if it was another woman or what, but they had to get to the bottom of it before the cruise. She was not giving up her little secret until she knew what he was hiding.