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That I went and got my grandmother’s ring from my mom because I saw the future on a little stick.
It doesn’t matter to me. We would probably have ended up here sooner or later. Hell, I’d moved Brandi in with me after a month.
It wasn’t her. The reason for my anxiety and stress, and that feeling like the world was going to end if I didn’t tie her to myself forever.
My heart swelled when I saw her and the sex was amazing like it was from the beginning. It was me. I should have told her I’d found the test, that I knew. But instead, I’d gone and got the ring.
Something told me she’d have said no if I’d admitted to knowing about the baby. Brandi is sweet and loving and giving, but she protects herself, and, well, I don’t know. Early days in the relationship.
But I couldn’t let her go.
There’s so much I don’t know about her, like the sadness I see when she thinks I am not looking, the reasons behind Brian and Maya’s protectiveness that go beyond loving her like family. But she’ll talk when she wants. And I’ll give her that space.
As long as she has my ring on her finger, I’ll give her anything in the fuckin’ world.
Besides, with Jessica, it was sex and lust and a young love that almost destroyed me, and I know it’s different. The way it feels when you are so damned young, everything is monumental and over the top intense, like life begins and ends with that person.
I am not sure how to describe it beyond that. I thought I loved her more than anything, and that my life wouldn’t go on without her. But I was wrong.
Romeo and Juliet was something my mind went to at one point and I figured it wasn’t wrong because we’d been so young, not that our love was built to last. Young and stupid and Jessica…
I suck in a deep breath as I stare at the dash.
Jessica hadn’t been worth it. I see that now. Have for a while. But the anger inside that twists, the anger at her taking my brother from me, well, that hasn’t faded. And it’s tangled in that immature passion, that love that would have burned out if it’d been left.
That’s what would have happened even if she hadn’t wanted the money; it was clear even then that my brother would be making bank as a doctor one day. That would have happened if she hadn’t decided my brother was a better and more desirable man than me. And it would have happened if my brother hadn’t been weak and given in to those base urges with his twin’s fucking wife.
It would have happened, and I would have met Brandi… and I would have known I fucked up.
Brandi, what I feel for her, is different.
More.
This will last.
Her smile is more than the sun shining in a cloudy sky. Her happiness worth more than anything Jessica ever brought into my life.
Even if things moved fast, even if I rushed things. This will last.
We are going to have a baby.
Early days, I know, but when I think about it, marrying her was the only choice.
I sit in my service car, filling out the paperwork at the end of my shift, looking forward to going home to my wife. And a strange nervousness I’m not used to also sits at the pit of my stomach, like a dog with a bone.
Reminding me that—
The phone rings and I hit answer. “Masterson.”
“Congratulations,” the sheriff says, and something inside me goes tight.
Shit, I should have told my boss. “Things kinda moved fast,” I say as I finish my work and log it in. “I should have told you.”
But the man chuckles. “Young love, Masterson, I get it.”
“Thanks.” But it isn’t young love. It’s… everything.
“You don’t need to sound so shocked,” the sheriff shoots back, humor running through his voice. “Believe it or not, I was young once, and I have a wife.”
