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I have to tell him!
“Now, if you’ll join me in acknowledging the nominees!” Applause drowns out my thoughts, begging for our attention or risk being the assholes that don’t clap.
Rex taps his palm to his thigh as he pulls my chair against his and tucks an arm around me.
Whistles and hoots begin as the nominees stand in thanks, Fin’s grin wider than I’ve ever seen.
“Rex,” I lean into my fiancé and whisper. “I wanna tell you something.”
“Please welcome to the stage, this year’s winnnnnerrrrr …” The host brags, dragging out his words along with opening the envelope with the winner’s name on the inside.
“What is it, babe?” Rex asks, his full attention on me and not on the stage.
At least mine’s half there.
I should wait.
Rex grips my jaw, worry furrowing his brow.
Fuck, I have to now.
“Finland ‘Fin’ Montgomery of As Above!” The host shouts.
“I’m pregnant,” I whisper.
Our table erupts. The room busts into deafening applause.
Cedar jumps up beside me, knocking my forehead into Rex’s and bringing his shocked expression up close and personal.
“Babe?” He absently rubs the spot on my skin where we collided, but his eyes refuse to leave mine.
“Yes.” I nod, tears forming behind eyes with way too much makeup to ruin, but I don’t care.
The pure admiration that meets me, the tight arms thrown around my ribs, make it worth ruining hundreds of dollars’ worth of time and cosmetics.
Rex stands, taking me with him, and we spin. Our excitement confused with the other great news of the night.
“Did I just hear what I fucking think I did?” Cedar growls in my ear the moment my feet hit the floor.
“I was going to wait, but it’s been eating at me.” Rex’s hands go to my stomach, his misting eyes holding me hostage.
I swipe at my face unapologetically, unladylike, and I do it with a smile.
“Yeah.” I nod again to confirm the questions I see sparking in his eyes, and to answer my sister. “You did.”
“Holy shit.” Cedar breathes somewhere behind me.
“What she said.” Rex pulls me in tight, his lips smashing into mine and smearing the red stain all over both of us.
“I’m gonna be an uncle?!” Mac’s voice echoes along my brainstem as Rex pulls back from me, breathless and a little in love.
“Yeah,” he answers his twin without taking his eyes off me and my watery mess.
“I fuckin’ told you, potato spud!”
“Yeah,” Rex smirks. “You did.”
Rex’s eyes leave mine for just a moment to meet his twin’s proud gaze. Something passes between them, some kind of twin love I’ll never truly understand, and when Rex comes back to me along with Mac’s gaze …
