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I'm pregnant with Kaiden's baby.
I fight the urge to jump up and down and squeal like a giddy schoolgirl. I also fight the urge to burst into happy tears again. I've cried enough this morning, thank you very much. Thank goodness Audrey works miracles with makeup because it took one to cover my puffy eyes and splotchy face.
A snowball whizzes past my head, barely missing me.
Crap. I'm not focused at all.
I quickly launch one in Abel's direction, only to realize at the last moment that he's also lost in his own world. The snowball smacks him directly in the face. He barely notices. He's staring at his personal assistant, oblivious to the rest of the world. I think he's in love with her or falling in love with her. With Abel, it's hard to tell. He holds his cards close to his chest.
I wince as Luca marches onto the set, headed straight for my costar. "We don't have a problem, do we, Abel?"
"No, sorry," he says, tearing his eyes away from Scout. "But this is why I became an actor instead of a baseball player when the Angels called."
A few members of the crew laugh. I bite my lip to hide a smile. Abel is incorrigible.
Luca nods. "Sure, let's take five and let Abel rest his major league arm a bit. Reset the scene, please."
Abel smiles gratefully and then murmurs his thanks to me before stalking toward Scout.
He barely makes it two steps before Kaiden's baring down on me like a freight train. "I don't like this scene," he growls for the tenth time this morning. "They're throwing shit at you."
"It's snow, Kaiden."
"I don't like it."
I shake my head, smiling at him as he holds a bottle of water toward me. "If you ever decide you're tired of teaching people stunts, you'd make a great director," I tease, taking a sip of water. "I hear that they, too, like bossing people around on sets."
He shoots me a dirty look.
"Just saying."
"Are you mine, princess?"
"You know I am," I whisper.
"Are you carrying my kid?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll be as bossy as I need to be to make sure my girls are taken care of," he growls, his eyes dark as they rove over me. "Now, say you're welcome and finish your scene before I decide to be really bossy and carry your sexy ass out of here."
"I like option B," I groan.
He takes a step toward me, intent clear in his gaze.
I quickly jump backward, knowing full well that he'll carry me out of here in a heartbeat, this scene and the shooting schedule be damned. When it comes to me, I'm quickly coming to learn that Kaiden doesn't care what anyone else has to say or what they think. All that matters to him is me.
"You want a girl?" I ask.
"Hell no. I want boys. One of you is enough to worry about, princess."
"You said your girls."
"You want a baby girl," he says in a rumbling growl, satisfaction glinting deep in his eyes. "And I don't ever tell you no, Laura."
My heart flutters, and love for this man threatening to burst out of me. I don't know what I did to deserve him, but I need to keep doing it. He's the sweetest Grinch I've ever met. I was wrong the day I met him. I thought he was difficult, but he isn't. He was guarded, hiding behind the walls he erected to keep people out. But he's not hiding anymore. He's finally living again.
"I love you," I whisper."
