Chapter 43
ShannonFaced with another dinner at Jonah’s parents’ house, I stormed the mall looking for something appropriate to wear to Thanksgiving. I hoped to find a couple of different outfits so every invitation wouldn’t send me into a wardrobe panic.
The process took me nearly three hours, but I finally found two perfect ensembles through scouring the sale rack of a posh department store—a designer wrap dress in black silk jersey, a silk blouse, and a stretchy pair of knit trousers.
I hadn’t thought women wore “trousers,” but since the saleswoman kept using the term, I adopted it. Those were a nod to my expanding waist. The wrap dress, the woman told me, would also fit for several months as would the flowy blouse.
On Thanksgiving morning, I drove to Taryn and Jeff’s to spend time w
