A rush of air escapes me. “Good answer.”
“Why?”
My lips curl into a grin. “I took a test this morning at work. Turns out you haven’t been poisoning my morning coffee.”
He grunts. That joke didn’t go over well this morning when I puked after coffee.
“So, apparently, I’m pregnant.” I hold my breath, worried about his response.
Seconds tick by. Minutes. Maybe even months or an eternity. Elias’s face remains hardened in stone.
Obviously, I have to breathe because we’re going to be here for a while. I suck in more air and plead with my eyes for him to hurry up.
Then, his lips curl into a grin that turns into a full faced one. “You’re serious?”
“I wouldn’t tease you. Not about this.”
He cups my cheek and runs his thumb over my bottom lip. “You’re so beautiful.”
“Elias,” I say with a huff.
His kiss is sweet and then he pulls away. He cups his hand around his mouth, bellowing into the night.
“Holy schnitzel! We’re having a baby!”
The budgies holler back from the aviary.
I guess they’re excited too.
The End
