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Four

Horrible woman? Lucy blinked in surprise. “You didn’t like Alice?”

“No one did. To be honest, I don’t even know if Tony liked her all that much. Or she him.”

What? “Why would they get married if they didn’t like each other?”

“That’s what everyone has been trying to figure out. We all assumed that she was pregnant.”

Lucy’s breath caught in her throat, and her stomach did a violent flip-flop. It had never occurred to her that Alice could be pregnant, too. It would explain the rushed marriage. But what were the odds that he would knock up two different women accidentally within months of each other? And would Tony let Alice go back to New York knowing she was carrying his child?

“Could she be?” Lucy asked, terrified that Sarah might actually say yes.

“When I saw the way she was slamming back champagne yesterday before the service, I came right out and asked her. She is not.”

Thank God.

“I was relieved as well. She never struck me as the maternal type,” Sarah said. “Children seemed to make her uncomfortable.”

“Not everyone is cut out to be a parent,” Lucy told her. “Some people are too selfish.”

“Some are indeed,” Sarah agreed. “But not you. I can tell.”

Lucy laid a hand on her tummy and a content smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. “This baby means everything to me.”

“Do you know if it’s a boy or girl?”