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Yeah, Nugget seemed to want to be the size of a basketball player still in the womb. “You keep telling me he’s measuring right along with his chart or whatever you use.”
She pressed a hand to my stomach and stared at it.
“Is this normal?” Shelby whispered.
This was the first time Shelby was meeting Shannon.
Shannon smiled wide at Shelby. “It’s normal for me,” she laughed. She dropped her hand from my stomach and shook hands with Shelby. “You must be Shelby. I’m Shannon. Keeper of secrets.” She opened her purse and held up a paper baggie. “Where is the handsome man I need to dress up?”
Shannon was the only one who what the gender was, and Charlie and I had decided that we wanted to include Bandit in the reveal.
Shannon was going to change his collar and put a bandana on him that would reveal Nugget’s gender.
I was so excited to find out what we were having.
I had come to grips that I was going to be a mom on my own, but it was like I had known that Charlie and I were going to get back together because finding out the gender without him felt wrong.
Now that we were by each other's sides, it was time to find out if Nugget was a boy or a girl.
“He’s in the dining room.” Shelby pointed to the closed doors. “He’s waiting for you.”
Shannon smiled wide. “Are we all here?” she asked.
“We are–” I started, but Charlie’s loud shout cut me off.
“Missy?”
I smiled wide. “Now we are all here.”
Shannon slipped behind the closed doors, and we all gathered around them.
Charlie wrapped his arms around me and rested his hands on my belly. “How is my mama doing?” he whispered in my ear.
“Better now that you are here,” I smiled.
He pressed a soft kiss to my cheek. “Love you, Missy.”
I turned my head, and my eyes connected with his. “I love you, too, Charlie.”
“Was Blake coming?” I heard Shelby ask.
I didn’t care who was here as long as Charlie was.
The man had stolen my heart years ago, and even though he had jostled it around a few months ago, I was still his.
“He’s outside on the phone. He should be right in.” Wilder put his arm around Shelby’s shoulder.
“Congratulations,” I called.
Wilder tipped his head to the side.
Shelby sheepishly held up her hand. “I can’t keep secrets,” she confessed.
“Shelby Lyn,” Wilder laughed. “You were the one who made me swear up and down that we wouldn’t say anything till later.”
She threw her hands up. “I can’t help it. I’m excited you’re gonna marry me, and I need to tell everyone.” She leaned forward and smiled at Charlie. “Wilder asked me to marry him.”
Charlie smiled. “I know. Wilder told me but swore me to secrecy.”
