5
“So this is where you’re hiding out,” Karen said as she strode out the front door of Ryan and Jenny’s house to join him on the porch, where he sat in the dark alone. “Charlotte’s filling everyone in on what happened.”
The streetlights were on, and he could hear the sounds of his family, of everyone inside the house. Karen wore a blue and white cotton dress with a white sweater pulled overtop, her legs and feet bare. Her hair was pulled up in a messy bun, and she was holding a glass of white wine as she sat in one of the porch chairs beside him.
“You know, it may not be a bad thing…” she started. Maybe the dark look he gave her was why she stopped talking and let out a sigh.
“And how’s that?” he said. “Reine got a f****d-up deal, and now she wants to give her kid away.” He knew that w
