It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (z-lib.org).epub

Chapter Twenty-Two
Allysa is three days overdue.
We’ve lived in our new apartment for a week now. We successfully got
all of our stuff moved the day Ryle was off, and Allysa and I went furniture
shopping the second day we moved in. We were practically settled by the
third day. We got our first piece of mail yesterday. It was a utility bill for
establishing service, so it finally feels official now.
I’m married. I have a great husband. An awesome house. My best friend
just happens to be my sister-in-law and I’m about to be an aunt.
Dare I say it . . . but can my life get any better?
I close my laptop and get ready to leave for the evening. I’ve been
leaving earlier now than I usually do because I’m so excited to get home to
my new apartment. Just as I begin to close my office door, Ryle uses his key
to open the front door to the store. He lets the door fall shut behind him
as he walks in with his hands full.
There’s a newspaper tucked under his arm and two coffees in his
hands. Despite the frenzied look about him and the urgency in his step,
he’s smiling. “Lily,” he says, walking toward me. He shoves one of the
coffees in my hand and then pulls the newspaper out from under his arm.
“Three things. One . . . did you see the paper?” He hands it to me. The
paper is folded inside-out. He points at the article. “You got it, Lily. You
got it!”
I try not to get my hopes up as I look down at the article. He could be
talking about something totally different from what I’m thinking. Once I
read the headline, I realize he’s talking about exactly what I was thinking. “I
got it?”
I’d been notified that my business was nominated for an award for Best
of Boston. It’s a people’s choice awards the newspaper holds annually, and
Lily Bloom’s was nominated under the “Best new businesses in Boston”
category. The criteria are for businesses that have been open less than two