“Oh,” Alix said as she got into the truck. “Oh.”
“Is that a good oh or a bad one?” he asked, getting behind the wheel.
“I’m a student and you’re … him. What do you think it means?”
“That I should do my own work?”
She was glad that he was back to teasing her and that the tension between them was gone. “You have any photos of the land?”
“I have a 3-D of the terrain of the twelve-acre plot, including existing trees and a big rock formation. I was thinking—”
“Of making one wall part of the stone?” she asked.
He had his arm over the back of the seat as he reversed the truck, but he paused to look at her—and the look he gave her was just as her father used to do when she’d done something that pleased him.
“You had the same thought?” she asked.
“Exactly. But I can’t decide about the entrance. What do I do to match the stone wall? Maybe—” He broke off when Alix’s cell phone rang.
She pulled it out of her bag and looked at the ID. “It says ‘Unknown Caller,’ ” she said. She was always cautious about such calls.
“It could be your friend.”
Alix pushed the button. “Hello?”
“I’m so sorry!” Izzy said. “So, so sorry I just disappeared, but Glenn threw a fit. It was wonderful! I was never so in love with him in my life. I thought he and his father were going to start slugging each other, but Glenn stood his ground and his mother stopped pestering me about who had to be in my wedding.”
Alix looked across the seat at Jared and nodded that it was Izzy. At her look of happiness, he smiled. “What about your mom?”
“My dad took care of her,” Izzy said. “He was hilarious. He said that my young knight scared him half to death and that even though Mom also scared him, Glenn was bigger.”
“That sounds like your dad.”
“And your father too. Did you know that he called my dad and said …? Well, I don’t know what he said, but it started everything and— Oh, Alix, I’ve just talked about me. How are you doing?”
“I’m great,” she said, “but I’m afraid I haven’t done much about your wedding.”
“That’s okay. I have and I’ll email you all about it. Did you know that Glenn and I are in the Virgin Islands right now?”
“Yes, I did.”
“It was your dad’s idea, but both our parents paid for it.”
“My father helped?” Alix looked at Jared, who lifted his eyebrows.
“Yes, he did. And when my phone didn’t work here, they had this one sent to the hotel.”
“Actually, that was—”
“I’m pregnant.”
“What?” Alix said.
“That’s why I was crying so much on Nantucket. Hormones, I guess. And now all I do is throw up. I—” She stopped because Alix gave a scream of happiness.
“You’re sure?”
Jared looked at Alix in question and she gestured a big curve over her stomach.