Wow! She was so upper-class now!

Her eyes landed on Alice’s stomach, and her heart lurched into her throat. She’d kill Noah. She would.

Then she let out a laugh in hopes to disguise that slip of horror.

“Look at you! You’re a queen, now.”

The smile fell when Alice complimented her experience, with that same shocked, overwhelmed expression she had had when a pupil once dropped a bucket of chum on her.

It was just pleasantries, but it was also the only thing that mattered about Lory these days.

“Thanks,” she squeaked out.