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Nothing came out fast enough.

She nodded.

“Exactly.”

“Man, y’all making this shit bigger than it gotta be.”

Avery almost choked.

“BIGGER?”

“Yes!”

“You have a baby with me and a baby with Heather!”

“And?”

There it went again.

Fuck.

Avery stared at me like she wanted to throw Carter at Heather and beat my ass herself.

I pointed between them.

“Both of y’all knew I was married.”

Heather’s face changed.

There it was.

The truth.

“Don’t look at me like that,” I said. “You knew.”

“You told me you were leaving her!”

“And Avery knew I wasn’t!”

Avery’s eyebrows shot up.

“Don’t drag me into your bullshit.”

“How am I dragging you? You knew I went home to Sam every fucking night.”

“So that makes what you did okay?”

“No. But don’t sit here acting like I tricked you into thinking I was single.”

Heather laughed.

“So this is our fault.”

“I didn’t fucking say that.”

“You just did.”

“No, I said everybody in this room knew what the fuck they were doing.”