Rock Redemption (Rock Revenge Trilogy 3)

She was getting there physically. Emotionally would come too. It would just be a process.

All of this was.

But he wasn’t there this time. Instead, Lila sat on the stool beside her bed.

The moment their gazes locked, both started to sniffle.

But rather than Lila starting off the way Margo assumed, she pointed an accusing finger. “You’re pregnant.”

Margo swallowed. “Yes.”

She still was. Thank God. Her baby was a fierce little thing.

How could he or she be anything else with her and Simon for parents?

“The baby is okay?”

Margo nodded. “As far as they can tell, he or she is just fine.” She rubbed her belly and fought to keep the tears in her eyes from falling. She’d cried so much lately and she was tired of it. “My kid is a fighter.”

“Just like her mama. Or just like his mama. You don’t know which yet? Or is that a secret too?”

Margo bit her lip at the slight hint of censure in her best friend’s voice. “I didn’t tell you.”

“No. And that’s why I pointed at you, because I’ve never really had a best friend before as an adult, but I’d swear that’s in the fine print of the contract.”

Margo had to laugh. “I’ve never had a best friend before either. Probably not even as a kid. It seemed like a big commitment.”

“It is. A huge one.” Lila’s normally even voice cracked. “Because when your best friend gets kidnapped, you feel like your heart is breaking while simultaneously wanting to strangle anyone who could have hurt her.”

It was Margo’s turn to point at Lila, sniffling all the while. “Do not get me started again, all right? I’ve shed enough tears for a lifetime since that accident.”

“It wasn’t an accident.”

“No. Not even close.”

Lila reached over and took her hand. “I’m not going to ask you to relive any of it. No promises you won’t be asked by others though. That’s for the Roth team and their men to try to put the pieces together for the police regarding Simon’s mother.”

Margo couldn’t stop her shudder. “Li, she’s seriously unbalanced.”

“Since she helped organize this whole thing, yes, I have to agree.”

“No, even beyond the whole mastermind thing. People do crazy stuff for money, and that’s bad enough. And this was really nuts, I know. But I spoke to her and she’s completely batshit.” She gripped Li’s cold fingers to give herself something to focus on. “I’ve only told Simon bits and pieces so far.”

“Because he can’t handle it,” Lila said gently.

“It’s all so raw. For him. For me.” Margo released a long breath. “We’ve been through a lot, and we’ve always come through it stronger. I don’t know how, but we have. But this—”

“You’ve already started the process of coming through it. That his mother is one of the people who harmed you makes it harder, but not impossible.”

“That’s just it. She didn’t harm me.” Margo tipped back her head on the pillow. The lights were bothering her eyes, so she closed them.

She also didn’t want to see the empathy reflected in her best friend’s expression. It was hard enough remembering what she’d gone through without dealing with Lila’s sympathy.

Probably because she was drowning in so much emotion of her own.

“I woke up shackled to a bed.”

“Oh, Margo.”