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Ruby balanced her phone between her shoulder and ear as she wound her bike chain around a tree. “Have you decided what you want on your cake? I just arrived at the bakery.”
“I told you, it doesn’t really matter to me. The cake is going to be delicious either way,” Katie said.
It mattered to Ruby. An ache settled in her chest and she paused outside the bakery door. “What about pink baby booties in the middle with the writing surrounding them?”
“Yeah, sure. That sounds great.”
Ruby sucked in a breath. What had she been thinking? She shouldn’t be the one planning Katie’s baby shower, all things considered. But Katie didn’t have any sisters to do this for her, so as her sister-in-law, Ruby felt obligated to offer. She wished Katie had said no.
“Any last-minute thoughts? Now’s your chan
