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“Um, thanks.” I unscrewed the cap and took a drink. “Was he okay?”
“Probably has a bruised rib or two.”
“How many of my chairs are kindling?” Kira asked as she absently scrolled on her own tablet.
“Kain ordered three. Two were toast. But he found a cool bench-style one. Can make a bigger conversational section in the back garden.”
Kira sighed. “Well, at least he has an eye for that kind of thing. They’re still blockheads.”
Lennon chuckled and set two bottles on the bar. “Let’s try some drinks, shall we?”
“So, about that. You’ll have to come up with a few virgin versions for me for the next seven-ish months.”
Lennon ran around the bar. “No way. No way!” She tugged Kira off her stool and pushed up her shirt.
Kira laughed and tugged her shirt down. “I’m not showing yet. That’s from my Kain burrito.”
Lennon pulled her in for a hug. “Soon to be a big burrito. Ronan is huge.”
“Girl, do not put that image in my head. I’m already freaking out a little.”
“I would be too.”
“Not helping.” Kira shoved her away, only to have Cara waiting for her turn for a hug.
A pang hit me once more. Kira had surprised me with the news in the bathroom. Evidently, it wasn’t general knowledge just yet.
Kids had been a nebulous dream. A someday kind of thing that I’d never allowed myself to think too hard about. For one thing, I’d never really felt settled enough with anyone to wonder if children were in my future.
If a man didn’t stick around long enough to be withme,how could I think about babies?
But seeing how excited both women were for Kira and the way they banded around her made me all the more cognizant of how alone I truly was.
My hand fell to my flat belly.
That last time with Beckett wouldn’t result in a baby. The timing was off, and I’d been on birth control for years, but I couldn’t stop thewhat if.And there would be no one for me to call and tell. No one to hug me and tell me they were happy for me.
Cara climbed back on the stool beside me and gave me a watery smile. “Amazing news, isn’t it?”
I nodded and whispered around the lump in my throat. “Amazing.”
Lennon laughed and returned to the other side of the bar. “Guess we’ll be moving that wedding date up too?”
“You guessed right.”
Lennon grabbed a few mixers and spun them around her palm to make an apple-based drink with a few other ingredients before she plunked a cherry in the glass and set it in front of Kira. “Cradle Rocker.”
Kira took a sip. “Better than a cradle robber, I guess. Man, that’s good though.”
“Guess we’ll be adding some of those to the menu.”
“We sure will.” She lined up some glasses. “Now for the rest of us, how about a little day drinking?”
I closed the cover on my tablet. “I’m in.”
Cara’s eyes widened. “Shouldn’t we be working on the plans?”
“Birthday girl needs a drink, right? We’ll call this a working lunch.”
