RUBY
My excitement hit rock bottom. Not when I had walked in with Troy hand in hand, not when there were a swarm of people around us. But when one of the Lunas handed me her crying child.
I froze, my smiling face turning into something shocked and afraid. I stared at the mother with wide eyes, begging her wordlessly to take her child away. But she smiled, completely ignoring my please for help.
My hand shook under the baby, his wailing reduced to small whimpers before he went quiet. And all these women could do was aww around like it was an adorable thing. I mean maybe it was if I wasn't losing my shit.
My heart thundered in my chest. A life that could have been mine flashed before my eyes, my baby would have been bigger by now and here in this event with us like the others. Sweat formed at the back of my head, tracing down my back as tears gathered in my eyes.
