Chapter 6: Your Companions
Reese
Whoever coined the phrase, ‘a sticky situation’, must have taken one look into my future and decided to immortalize this exact moment.
Because there I was—standing in the middle of a growing crowd, phones pointed in my direction like I was the star of some public spectacle—while my real fiancée stood in front of me… and the woman beside me had just announced to the world that she was pregnant with my child.
A child that did not exist.
Jesus Christ.
Lauren’s eyes burned into mine, wide with disbelief and fury.
Elizabeth’s hand was still clamped around my arm like a lifeline. And people were filming. Of course they were.
“I’m talking to you, Reese!” Lauren stamped her heel against the pavement hard enough that several people turned their phones towa
