Free Love After Marriage (Forever After #2) by Mia Kayla Page A

unmoving. My eyes focused on the running water in the sink, feeling the water rush past my fingertips.
    After a beat, he kissed the top of my head. "I'll just change out of my suit." The hurt was evident behind his tone, and it gutted me.
    My shoulders sank as a lump formed in the back of my throat. Would it always be like this? Was this what our relationship had come down to? Would this forever slump of fighting end?
    I dried my hands and headed to the bathroom to fix my makeup.
    Stopping at the mirror, I glanced at my reflection. The woman staring back at me had changed in the last week. There were bags under her eyes, her face was sunken, and her cheeks were without their natural luster. But it was her eyes that were the most different. Those eyes staring back at me, although they were the same emerald green that belonged to me, were the eyes of a woman I didn't recognize.
    I had definitely lost weight, which made sense because everything I'd been putting in had been coming out. Squaring my shoulders, I observed her one last time. I felt a new determination rise up in me. Because something needed to change before I lost the woman I was completely.

Chapter 6
    B eth :
    The Peninsula Hotel had the best food in the universe. In my former life, I could’ve stayed for brunch and dinner, ate everything at the buffet, and still ordered a few things off the menu. But not today. Not when the scent of grease from Kent's steak made me want to rush to the bathroom and throw up whatever was left in my stomach.
    Dinner once a month had been a tradition my mother-in-law had started shortly after we were married. I was the first one to jump on the Peninsula meal train, always excited to spend time with my in-laws. But today was the exception. My body felt overly tired, and all my senses were heightened, especially my sense of smell, which only intensified the nausea. But I knew Mom and Dad would know something was wrong if I cancelled. Dad had already seen us fighting at the office, and I didn't want to add more worry to their lives.
    "Do you want something different? You haven't touched your meal," Kent said, placing his hand on top of mine.
    My fork poked at my uneaten Chicken Kiev on my plate "No." That one answer, simple but curt, had both Mom and Dad staring at each other before turning toward us.
    Great. That look confirmed that my father-in-law had clued my mother-in-law in on what had happened in the office.
    "Maybe something to drink?" Kent asked. "Sprite to ease your stomach?"
    "No thank you." I forced my voice to lighten for my in-laws’ benefit, but my eyes dropped to my plate as I felt everyone's focus on me.
    "Have you seen a doctor, dear? Maybe you're coming down with something." Mom spoke with concern.
    "No, I'm pretty sure this stomach thing will pass," I said, peering up at her. I had researched on the internet that after three months, usually the morning sickness eased up. Though in my situation, it was the morning-noon-and-night sickness.
    "Have you made an appointment with the doctor at all?" Kent leaned in and slid his chair closer to the table. "Aren't you supposed to see the doctor soon?"
    I wasn't going to start our heated conversation in front of his parents, so I shot him a look and he piped down.
    Mom furrowed her eyebrow, and her lips twitched into a smile. "Is there something we should know here, or something you want to tell us?"
    Without warning, without even discussing it with me first, he surprised me by sharing the news all by himself.
    Kent placed his hands on mine. A nervous smile touched his lips. "Yes. Mother, you're going to be a grandmother. We're pregnant."
    My jaw tightened as Kent smirked as though this was the greatest news he'd ever heard and he hadn’t been sucker shocked and wasted the night before.
    My face blushed red with rage. The heat that radiated from my cheeks could have lit a match. I had always planned on doing something a little cute to tell my in-laws that we were