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“Never,” he smiled tenderly at her. “I am the luckiest man on the planet right now, with everything I could ever wish for appearing before my very eyes. I feel very undeserving and incredibly blessed.”
“I hope you always feel that way.”
“I do…” he murmured, smiling. “And never regretted saying it months ago.”
“I love you,” she smiled nervously. “We’re going to be okay?”
“We arewonderful, my love.”
CHAPTER8
Nicolette stared at the pregnancy test the next morning and closed her eyes. Disbelief, wonder, joy, and trepidation took turns popping up in her mind, their insidious voices nagging at her.
There were two lines staring at her on the test.
Everything was chaos around her, starting with this, then Toby and Samantha’s relationship, plus Caspar graduating from college and moving on to another term for in order to specialize in his field. Her brother, who was younger than her by barely a year, was a doctor now…
It was almost as shocking as her pregnancy.
“Did you fall in?” Caspar yelled angrily from the hallway. “I’ve got to get over to Quinn’s house in a bit and waiting on you, Nic…”
“I’m coming,” she volunteered quickly, throwing everything away and gathering up the trashcan. Getting to her feet, she looked at her face in the mirror, not feeling any different… just that constant twinge of nausea.
Yanking open the door, she glared at Caspar.
“I was just picking up because I have two disgusting brothers sometimes…” she taunted, walking out of the bathroom with the little trash can.
“Good morning to you too…” her brother said, sounding just like her father. She shrugged past him, cradling the trash to her in order to hide the test, and dashed downstairs, emptying it in the larger can, before mashing it down in an effort to bury it.
She needed to talk to Luke.
“Dr. Caspar, maybe you can manage to put this back, huh?” she hollered, putting the can on the bottom step, before grabbing her purse and leaving quickly. She had taken today off because of her brother’s graduation, the party, everything happening at once… and the way her stomach flopped just now? She was really glad about it.
Getting into her car, she immediately yanked out her phone – and heard Luke’s voice not two seconds later.
“Hello?”
“Hey…”
They both sat there for a few moments, silent. Neither speaking as she felt tears sting her eyes again. She sure was an emotional ninny lately, and it seemed like all her emotions were much more intense.
“It was positive…” she whispered.
“We’re gonna have a baby?” he replied softly, his voice so full of love and joy that she couldn’t help the sob that escaped her.
“You’re not mad?”
“You’ve asked me that twice,” he chuckled softly. “I’m thrilled. A little nervous – but honestly thrilled. I never imagined any of this and we should probably talk to our families sooner rather than later.”
“I agree.”
“Can you come over tomorrow night and we’ll tell my parents? I might go ahead and tell my dad because he already knows something’s going on between us…”
“Really?”
“Yes. He guessed.”
“Let’s tell my parents this evening at the party. They will already be happy about Caspar and…”
