**Six Months Later**
Allison's POV
"Come on, Allison, please?!" Katie begged.
I was at work and Katie was bugging me for the eight-hundredth time to go out with her. I fully expected her to be trying to set me up again, but she didn't even bring it up. In fact, she stopped talking to me about Mason months ago. I still thought about him every day, though. I tried not to, but it was so difficult, damn near impossible. Every night before I went to sleep, I laid there, replaying what I said to him in my head and seeing that woman in his apartment afterward. I didn't get much sleep these days.
"No, Katie."
She slammed her hand down on my desk.
"Damnit, Allison! You can't just hide away in your house every night!"
Katie had gotten way more hormonal as her pregnancy continued. I wasn't su
