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A happy grin stretched across my face. “I’m not sick. Well, not in the way you’re thinking.” I took his hand and laid it across my lower abdomen. “I’m pregnant. It’s still really early and anything can happen, but I couldn’t wait to tell you.” The positive test was stuck in a plastic baggie at the bottom of that Michael Korrs weekender bag I’d had my eye on. Jareth had gifted it to me the day he told me we were going on a two week Mediterranean cruise.
“We’re having a baby?” The absolute awe in his voice warmed me from the inside out.
I nodded. “We are.”
He lifted me up into his arms and pressed his lips to mine. The kiss quickly went from a chaste peck to our mouths hungrily devouring each other.
Franny’s wolf whistle reminded me we weren’t alone.
I grinned sheepishly. “To be continued,” I whispered.
When he let me down I turned toward my grandmother who was sobbing in Nolan’s arms. “I’m going to be a great-grandmother.”
Jareth’s hands settled gently on my hips, his fingers kneading the tender flesh. His lips skated up the column of my neck. “Let’s sit down. I don’t want you to overexert yourself.”
I couldn't stop the uncontrollable laughter that burst out of me. “I’m like seven weeks or something. I don’t think I’m going to break.”
“Sunshine… ”
“Jareth… ” He was not going to bully me throughout this pregnancy, but for now I’d give in. I spun in his arms. “I know we hadn’t planned for anything like this… ” I had an IUD, which clearly had failed, so a pregnancy had not been on our minds.
“I want nothing more than to have a child with you.” His breath feathered across my lips. “I’m scared I won’t be any good at the dad thing, but knowing our child has you as its mother makes me want to try my damndest to–.”
I cut him off to reassure him he was worthy. “You, Jareth Vizier, will be a phenomenal father.” When he opened his mouth to respond I laid my fingertips against his lips. “Haven’t you figured out by now that I’m right about everything?”
He grinned.
I let my hands drop away to settle on his shoulders once again. “Now kiss me so we can celebrate the best day of our lives—so far.”
He laughed and pulled me into another deep kiss, until the whoops and cheers around us became background noise. I mentally cataloged every second, wanting to remember how I felt in this moment, the moment when all of my dreams came together. The moment both of us realized our happily-ever-after wasn’t just a wish.
It was real.
