章 207: Awkward

Lila

The car ride to the apartment building was very quiet. Lila's head spun, but she'd managed to keep the lawyers off the subject of what was outlined in Dane's documents, and on the subject of how and why now was the time to make it all happen. She just prayed the Police didn't officially open the case overnight.

Chris sat next to her in the car, glancing at her worriedly. Glancing at her stomach. She was going to have to start answering questions about that fake pregnancy again soon, but she'd managed to fall apart just enough to keep him from bringing it up. At least, so far.

When they exited the car in the parking lot, Josh leapt out of the back-up car and rushed to Lila's side, while Chris briefed the driver. But Lila ignored all of them, just walked like she couldn't think about anything except getting into bed, and let them deal with the details.