Haunting Magic (Ink Book 6) Read Free Page B

there’s anything else you need help with call the store. I’m always here.” He tells me.
    Karsen makes a face and I grab the bags following her out of the store.
    “What?”
    “August was flirting with you. And I don’t like it.”
    I shake my head, because that sounds very absurd. The guy was being polite. Every man in the world does not have a hidden agenda. “He was being polite. He mentioned our weddings. How tacky would that be to flirt with a girl after you admitted to knowing she is married?”
    Karsen raises an eyebrow. “Anything is possible. Men are snakes. John Redcorn tried to convince me to run away with him a week before I married Kidd.”
    “Radcom. And John is a total squid.”
    Karsen giggles at my silly comparison and climbs into the passenger side of her car. She struggles with the seatbelt while I struggle with the bags going into her trunk.
    She hasn’t emptied the trunk full of baby items.
    I make do, shoving blankets and stuffed animals, diapers, you name it out of the way so I can drop my bags praying nothing leaks onto her things and open the driver side door staring in at her.
    “I take it you want me to drive?”
    “My stomach hurts. And my feet are fat. I need a nap.” She focuses out her window.
    These mood swings, I am having a hard time getting used to them. One minute she is her normal wacky self, the next she is contemplating the meaning of life.
    “Thanks for coming with me,” I tell her. “I needed out of the house.”
    She sniffles.
    I raise an eyebrow, she can’t be crying. “Karsen?”
    I start out of the parking lot waiting for her to say something.
    “What?”
    “Are you okay?”
    She sniffs more before answering me. “No. I think I peed myself.”
    I clench the steering wheel scared shitless. I know how labor happens I was with my mother when she went into labor.
    “Karsen…
    “What?” She sobs. “What kind of person pees themselves? I couldn’t even make it to the bathroom. I am falling apart.”
    I nearly miss the stop sign. “There is a difference between peeing yourself and your water breaking. Do you think your water broke?”
    “Maybe.” She wipes her eyes.
    I groan, I’m getting irritated. I wish I could slap sense into her. “Is it still coming out?”
    She lifts up and checks with her hand. “It’s like someone shoved a giant water balloon up there and poked a bunch of holes in it.”
    “Oh my god.” I slam on the breaks making a U-turn right in the middle of the road. “The hospital is an hour away!”
    I fumble for my phone, listening to Karsen crying as I dial Slade. I’m afraid to call Kidd because he will panic as much as Karsen.
    Slade shows up on the screen and he makes a face at the sounds coming from my side of things. “What did you do to Karsen?”
    “I did nothing to her. Kidd did.” I take a breath before I confess the news. “And I need you to tell him that Karsen is having the baby.”
    “What the fuck?” Slade’s eyes darken, he is speechless. He studies me, his mouth hanging slack.
    He’s looking at me like I made this happen.
    “Slade!” I screech. “She is having the baby. You need to tell Kidd and get him here before it’s too late. These things happen fast sometimes!”
    He shoves his hand through his hair, biting down on his lip ring. “Okay. He’s out back helping with set up. Hold on. Shit.”
    The world rushes around me on his phone as he tries to find Kidd.
    Karsen is still sniffling. “Everything will be okay.”
    “I know. I’m just scared.”
    It makes me sad. I don’t want her to be scared. I want her to feel empowered, she is about to bring a life into the world.
    “What if I am a terrible mother?” She groans, holding onto her stomach. “Ow, I think something is wrong.”
    “Nothing is wrong. You’re in labor. And it’s happening faster than it should be.” I bring my phone back up and search the screen for any signs of Slade, Kidd, someone. All I see is the ground and all I hear is