“You’re a hard woman to track down,” he said. My spine stiffened at that. So they’d been looking for me for a while then. s**t. I shrugged. “It’s not like I was hiding.” That was the truth. I hadn’t taken any drastic measures to hide from Rory and Cooper…but I hadn’t gone out of my way to seek them out, either. I left a lot behind when I moved from Bridgewater. When Grandma died first semester freshman year, I had no reason to go back. I’d been reeling from grief and only a month or so into college classes…that was when I’d learned I was pregnant. Eighteen and pregnant, just like my mother. But unlike her, I hadn’t had Grandma to turn to. Instead of the dorms, I’d stayed with Grandma’s sister, Aunt Sarah, to save money, but we both agreed that schooling would have to wait until I had the

