“Zander, I’m pregnant!”I gasp, almost unable to breathe.
“I know.”He grins.“We’re having a baby, sweetheart.”
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ZANDER
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ISHOULD BE freakingout, but I’m not.All I feel is this sense of rightness.As if this was always going to happen, but I had to let it unfold.Which makes me sound way more ethereal than I am.Trust me.
I’m going to be a father.
A little Zander or Zanderette...we can work on names.
From the moment I met Courtney Blackmore I wanted to dislike her.Make her fit into the mold I had of women divorcing uber rich men for their money.She didn’t fit.
She kept her shameful secret to protect both her pride and her husband’s, never using it as she could have as a weapon during their divorce.Adam could have also, but deep down he knowshewas the problem.
Courtney never allowed herself to put the blame on him because that’s not what controlled people do.Unless that’s what caused him to get violent with her that day.
“Why aren’t you mad?”she asks, reaching out and grabbing my T-shirt.
“Because I’m happy,” I sit on the sofa and pull her into my arms.“Aren’t you?”
I can feel her heart beating a million miles an hour and try to calm her by running my hand over her back.
“I don’t know how I feel.”Her face tilts, and awe replaces her shock.“Zander.I’m a mother.”
I smile, emotion blasting through me.
“Yup.I’m going to be a father.”
“But what about us?”Courtney asks.“Where does that leave us?”
Easy.
I know my friends are going to have a field day for the rest of my life about this, but I don’t give a flying fuck.
“I’m marrying you.Soon as your divorce is settled, we’re getting married.”
She gasps.
I’m a little insulted, honestly.All my life, women have gone to great lengths to hook me into serious relationships and discuss what the future could look like.No one, and I mean no one, has even slightly tempted me.
The woman I choose looks horrified.
Not how this moment, which I never imagined, would go.
“My God, you can’t just say something like that, Zander.You have to ask.”
I smirk.
Is that what she wants?Romance, flowers, the big fucking diamond?
“You haven’t even said you love me?”Courtney smiles, and it's so damn pretty I nearly let her get away with being so sassy.
“I put a baby in your belly!”I point out.“How much more loving can you get?”
