Chapter 49
Lady of the Lake 1
Trembling, Laurel Gray clutched the plastic white stick in her hands, falling to her knees on the cool bathroom tile.
Pregnant… she was pregnant.
It couldn't be true. Yes, she and her boyfriend Blake Chapman had been intimate, but they'd always been careful with their protection. How could this happen? She was only in high school for God's sake!
Blake, what was she going to tell him? He was supposed to go to the University of Maine for his big hockey scholarship. Would he abandon that dream to stay with her?
He'd been talking about college for months now! He was going to make it big, escape out of their small, humdrum town with its one hotel and one diner and take her with him. She'd been waitressing in that eatery for a year now, but she certainly didn't want to be there when she was forty!
It would be alright though. Blake wanted to see her tonight out on the frozen lake.
She could tell him then. They were doing things a little out of order, but everything was going to be okay.