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CHAPTER ONE

When you're pregnant by your billionaire ex-boss houous breakup, you need your best friend to get through it all

Unfortunately, hs for Elie Saab's runway shoas so proud of Holli, and so freaked out at the saether since our first seest we'd been apart had been for a few days, visiting family Noouldn't see her for four weeks, as she was immersed in a ency

Everything seeht Not only would she be walking in her first fashion week show, she'd also be featured in the pages of French Vogue The side-trip to London, to be interviewed for a BBC docu that pushed her over the top, I knew, even if she was trying not to pin too many hopes on the next month

I was bursting with happiness for her, but I have to ad our situations It was difficult, though; her career was taking off like a rocket, and mine had burnt up on reentry

“Baby, you are gonna irlfriend, called out with the certainty of atoto herd Holli to the airport

Dressed head to toe in sleek, sexy black, from the very professional cut of her blazer to the very rock star chic matte leather pants she wore, Deja could have been a model, herself Her dark brown hair was pulled back in a sleek, low ponytail, and her brown skin shone beneath what I suspected was Shts bronzer

Former assistant beauty editor skills died hard

“She’s already packed, unpacked, and repacked six ti up from my bowl of cereal to nod toward Holli's bedrooerator in the sa really hard to not be miserable in front of Deja She still worked for my possibly-ex-boyfriend-slash-definite-baby-daddy, Neil Elwood, successful publishing nate and idiot man-child billionaire

That was just the kind of resentment I couldn't express in front of her I really didn't want to put her in theI had been the moron who'd dated my boss; why should Deja suffer aardness as a consequence?

But, I guess it’s impossible to not look miserable when you haven't showered since before your , dark eyes filled with sympathy as she looked at me “Still haven't heard from him?”

In ht of our kind-of breakup, I'd asked Neil to giveI'd been faced with the choice of taking a job with azine on the condition that I discontinuePorteras— the round Neil had given me an ultimatum Okay, maybe it had been a reality check He'd said that if I turned down a job to be with hi a coht But everything had beenso fast between us, I’d panicked And now I had no idea as going on with him, because he was still in the daot out

Deja had fed me what information she could, but all anyone at Porteras had been told was that Neil had been hospitalized for exhaustion Which was the stupidest excuse in the book, and totally transparent to anyone who knew Neil The one for a seven-ressive sex in the shower I'd barely been able to stand; he hadn't seehtly winded

I shrugged, repeating what I’d told Deja and Holli every day since Monday , when I’d filled the this tiet showered and dressed I have a doctor appointestured to my stomach

“Do you wantback over after I drop Holli off at the airport”

Deja had a car I didn't know anyone else as our age who had a car in the city God, she was so cool

I waved her off “No, I'll be fine It'll all be fine I'oodbye to Holli”