Seaside Moors Cause back where I come from, man, we're laughing at you

Out of her periphery Raleska could see Erzulie had looked away. She waited for the biting words - the scorn - that would punctuate the air soon after.

Instead came something unexpected; she felt her face flush first with confusion, and then a sense of indignation.

It’s not like that. She pressed, ears flat against her skull. She’d enjoyed her time with him, but it had been a fling. She hadn’t expected him to be a permanent fixture in her life anymore than she had expected to become pregnant. In hindsight... extremely dumb.

I’m going to tell him. In her voice was an edge of unshakable determination. What did Erzulie plan to do when she found him? Raleska hung back on answering. What are you going to do if you find him?

What he did thereafter, well, that was up to him.