Awesome

He watched as Beatrice and

Dina disappeared in the apartment without saying goodbye. He supposed he deserved that. Since he was terrible company at the moment, he didn't pursue them.

He needed to talk to someone but whom could he trust with something so personal? Vince offered terrible counsel

and Dillon was busy with his own impending fatherhood.

One person stood out in his mind but he was reluctant to go down that road for fear of what she’d say. But even as he feared this person’s honesty, he trusted her intuition unlike anyone else.

"Penny?" he asked when she answered the line. Her relieved sigh on the other told him volumes.

"It's about time you called. I thought I was going to give birth before you came to your senses. Now fill me in with the details; I want to know everything."

By the time he’d finished, he felt emotionally drained.

“Zane, don’t you see what the

answer is?” Penny asked.

“If I knew the answer I wouldn’t be tied up in knots,” he grumbled. Wasn’t that obvious? “I