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Aurora stands to clear the table and I take her wrist in my hand, stopping her. “You’re coming with me,” I order.
“Am I?” she asks, smiling.
“Damn straight. You’re pregnant and injured and you need to rest.”
“Yes, sir,” she mumbles, and that goes straight to my dick, making my lower abdomen heat up.
I stand up and she leads me into the bedroom. I plop down and grab her around the waist, pulling her with me, and she squeaks, protecting her bad shoulder.
“Sorry,” I mumble, but she doesn’t seem hurt. I kiss along her back. “Do you think it’s okay to still fool around?”
“It better be,” she says promptly, and I laugh and then sigh heavily.
“I guess better safe than sorry.”
“Absolutely not,” she says, pouting, trying to crawl into my lap but I block her with a frown.
“I’m not going to touch you until Jimmy says it’s okay,” I say firmly.
Aurora pouts and sits on her knees, staring at me. “Are you serious?”
“Dead serious.” I stare right back at her.
She leans forward to kiss me and I groan.
“You little brat,” I mumble. “I say I’m not going to touch you and then you try to kiss me? Tease.”
“I’m not being a tease if I’m going to put out,” she says, exasperated, and I laugh.
I know that I should be worried. I know that I should be freaking out about being a father, and part of me is. But I walked around all night, drinking too much and wanting to smoke so bad and thinking about what it would be like to have a son or a daughter, and I’ve come to some kind of understanding.
I don’t mind having a child. I just don’t know if I want to be with Aurora forever. I don’t know if I want to be with any woman forever. But Aurora doesn’t expect that from me, does she? She hasn’t said so. She hasn’t told me that she wants me to get married or anything like that.
Maybe I’m worrying needlessly. Aurora told me that I don’t have to do anything, so surely she’s not looking for marriage.
Of course, I’m concerned about what it means to be a father, but I feel excited, too. It’s like a new chapter in my life, a curveball that I didn’t expect.
I’ve always considered myself good at rolling with the punches. This is just one that I didn’t see coming.
“Not until the doctor comes and says it’s okay,” I say firmly.
Aurora clearly doesn’t like it but she curls up into bed next to me, yawning.
It takes me a long time to fall asleep, but she’s out in just a moment.
17
AURORA
Aweek later, I’m tired of the damn sling I’m wearing and I’m tired of Nico not touching me. I feel a lot better since the doctor gave me the nausea pills, and I stopped taking the other drugs the second day. I’m taking my prenatal vitamins every day, and I’m feeling a hundred times better.
I keep telling Nico that, but since Jimmy can’t come out and see me until next week, he won’t give in. It’s driving me crazy, sleeping next to him every night and not being able to be with him. I look at his bare broad back and shoulders, stare at him every night, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
I decide to ramp things up a little since Jimmy’s tied up with other emergent situations, and so at dusk, I go skinny dipping in the pool out back.
It’s a fancy saltwater one, and it feels good on my injured shoulder, anyway. Nico’s out on the terrace, fake-smoking as I call it, and the pool is right nearby, so I know he can see me as I shuck off my dress, throwing it on to the lawn chair.
He turns, his unlit cigarette hanging out of his mouth, staring at me with intense sea-green eyes.
