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“And you’re certain that Alexandria feels the same about you?” she asked. “Are you sure that she’s not just scared and making decisions based on that fear?”
“Don’t do that, Mom,” I told her, my voice hard.
“Do what, Hunter?” she asked challengingly.
“Create doubts in my mind when I don’t feel any,” I answered. “Alexandria loves me. She loves me, and she’s going to marry me, and if Allen Grant doesn’t end up killing me, then I’m going to spend the rest of my life making that girl happy.”
Her face softened. “I hope so. I really do, Hunter.”
“I love her, Mom,” I repeated. “This isn’t…this isn’t the mess that most people might think that it is.”
“Of course, it isn’t,” Mom immediately replied. “We didn’t raise you to be a douchebag, Hunter. I have no doubt that you’ll take care of Alexandria and how ever many children you choose to have.”
Even though my father was still eyeing me, my mother’s words helped make me feel better. While I didn’t expect or want them to clean up my ‘mess’, it made me feel better that my mother had confidence in me to do the right thing.
Looking over at my dad, I asked, “Is there anything that you’d like to say or ask me?”
“I just want to know that you didn’t take advantage of that girl, or that you’re not taking advantage of her now,” he said, and though it stung, I understood where he was coming from. In my dad’s eyes, it was the female that always needed to be protected.
“I was careless by forgetting the protection,” I admitted, giving them more information than they needed. “However, I didn’t take advantage of her. I’d never take advantage of a girl.”
Dad nodded as he sighed. “I know that, son. I just had to ask in case Allen Grant loses his shit.”
“If he does, I’ll deserve it,” I told him. “I’ll also own it, Dad.”
“This is fucking awesome,” Lars announced, finally speaking, Talon just rolling his eyes. “I’m going to be an uncle.”
“Can you focus?” Talon asked him. “This is serious.”
“I need a distraction since your sister is driving me insane,” Lars retorted.
Yeah, everything was going to be okay as long as Allen Grant didn’t kill me.
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Alexandria~
After the doctor had come back with the positive results, it’d felt…odd. While I hadn’t been surprised, I’d still felt a bit taken aback by the news. It’d been a weird sort of out-of-body experience. Dr. Mourney had talked to us about our choices, but we hadn’t been concerned with two of those three options. However, she’d given me her opinion on the best control for after giving birth, which was advice that I planned on taking.
With the news not being much of a surprise for either of us, Hunter and I had gone back to campus, finished out our day, then had met up for dinner. On the same page, we had put in our requests for needing the weekend off, and Jersey had surprised us both by guessing why we had needed the time off. According to her, I was glowing, and she was a firm believer that Hunter had been behaving like a growling dog protecting the Underworld because he’d felt how I’d been bred by him. It’d been the weirdest conversation that I’d ever had.
On the drive back to Lakeside, Hunter had done his best to convince me to let him accompany me to my parents’ house, but as much as I appreciated how much Hunter was doing this best to take responsibility for me, it was important for me to tell my parents alone. While my parents knew that Hunter and I were friends, what I was about to tell my parents was going to possibly break their hearts, and my parents didn’t need an almost-stranger seeing them during an incredibly personal and emotional time.
Now, while I had no doubt that my dad was going to want to talk to Hunter, no one liked to be blindsided, so I preferred that my father and Hunter talk after the initial emotional shock of the news wore off. Dad was going to be angry, and so I couldn’t see anything positive coming from letting Hunter take the brunt of that anger. I was just as responsible for this mess as Hunter was, and it was only fair that I made that clear to both of my parents.
When Kenzlee and I had arrived unannounced on their doorstep, they’d been so happy to see me that I had actually contemplated not telling them. I’d felt guilty and wrong for letting them think that this was a happy occasion, but Kenzlee had been great about not letting me chicken out.
The same night that the pregnancy had been confirmed, I had called Kenzlee to tell her the news. Hunter had done the same by calling Talon, waiting to tell Lars in person. Kenzlee had immediately offered to come with me for support, and I’d been too emotional to refuse. Not only was she the closest thing that I had to a sister, but I knew that my parents wouldn’t mind her being here for this. My parents had stopped thinking of Kenzlee as their niece a long time ago; she was like a daughter to them now.
“So, tell us everything,” Mom gushed. “How’s college life?”
We were all gathered in the living room, my parents on the couch, Kenzlee sitting next to them while I sat in one of the armchairs near the television. Despite Kenzlee having paid off their mortgage, my parents hadn’t gotten all fancy after that. The house that I’d grown up in still looked the same, and I loved that. I loved that my parents weren’t the type to let a little extra money go to their head.
“I’m pregnant,” I blurted out like a tool.
My mother’s eyes widened as my dad’s head jerked back in shock.
Yeah, this sucked.
