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“Oh, that’s just caffeine or nerves.” Valerie settled nearby on the sofa and picked up the Diet Coke can from the coffee table. “Or hormones. Who knows? Oh, Carine,” she said, giving her a tired look. “There’s a secondary task for you. I’m sure Heidi will tell you all about it.”
Carine wasn’t confident, but she thought the sound emitting from Heidi as she turned left into the master suite was a growl. “Close that door, will you, Carine? Thank you.”
Heidi didn’t bother turning on the light, so they were pitched into blackness when Carine pushed the door shut.
Heidi was making her way across the carpeted floor purely by feel.
Carine couldn’t see a damned thing except for the little red AM/PM indicator on the alarm clock.
“I’m pretty sure Tim had the birth control chat with Kevin at some point in the past five years, but I guess it didn’t take,” Heidi said.
The closet light clicked on.
She stood in the doorway with her arms folded over her chest. She looked like a frustrated schoolteacher who was no longer sure her students could figure out basic math.
Carine could do that math perfectly well, though. Sperm plus egg equaled zygote.
“Does that mean you’re going to be a grandmother?” she asked.
“Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”
Carine didn’t know what to say.
They weren’tthatold. And yet they were.
Somehow.
Heidi was older, but there were only a scant number of years between them. The scenario wasn’t exactly impossible to happen to Carine at her age, either. Some people started making people young.
“I take it this is something we don’t want your folks to know,” Carine intuited.
Heidi waved her over to the closet. “Less stress all around that way. Since Kalimah lives in a different county, she might be able to avoid crossing paths with them unless they happen to be at the hospital for some reason when she’s working.”
“Yet another reason to pray for good health for your elders, I guess. So, what are you going to do? Make a stealth announcement after the baby’s born?”
“Yes. Certainly, before the birth announcement gets printed in the paper, though. We’ll give them that much of a heads-up.” Heidi shook her head and lifted a gray cardigan off a hanger. “And I thought Timmy and I were young. I’d at least finished college. Those kids are barely out of high school.”
Carine tried on the sweater. It was a bit snug in the shoulders and tight around the biceps, but it was roomy enough across the chest.
Heidi found a brooch and pinned the plackets together more at the top.
“You have a black widow brooch?” Carine snorted.
“It was between that and a scorpion. Tim flipped a coin to pick. Hmm. On second thought, that might be a bit too highwayman goth for you tonight. Let’s try this one.” Heidi whisked the giant spider away and replaced her with a white rose. “There.” She smoothed the sweater down and twisted the rose until the nearest buttonhole didn’t gape quite as much. “Now you look like a proper prison matron.”
“Thanks a bunch.”
With unerring aim, Heidi found Carine’s left nipple and pinched it.
Her hand closed over Carine’s mouth before any of Carine’s disgruntled sounds could travel.
They stood toe to toe as Heidi’s free hand inched around Carine’s waist.
Carine couldn’t recall ever before spontaneously breaking a sweat, but she had just then. There was moisture gathering at her temples as her breathing raced. Remembering the last time she’d been in Heidi’s room and what had happened, her heart started forcing blood into all the parts Heidi had touched before.
Down below, she clenched, either as an act of self-preservation or self-punishment. She wasn’t sure, but she regretted that she’d done it because it only made her pussy throb more.
“You’re not gonna mouth off at me all night, are you?” Heidi asked in her slow, uninflected way. “That might cause some unnecessary conversations at the dinner table.”
