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I had no idea what to say. I turned to Bliss for help, but that was a mistake. She knew me too well.
She clapped a hand over her mouth. “No!”
I shook my head frantically, but she clearly wasn’t getting the message.
“You are, aren’t you!”
I shook my head again.
Riva’s gaze bounced between the two of us like she was at a tennis match. “You are what? Someone fill me in on what’s going on here.”
“Pregnant!” Bliss blurted out.
Riva’s eyes widened and then dropped to my belly.
Her gaze seared, like she could see through my clothes to the tiny baby bump underneath.
Bliss threw her arms around me, squealing and jumping up and down, even though I hadn’t actually confirmed anything. I’d wanted the guys to be the first to know, except I’d spent the last twenty-four hours trying to work up the nerve and it hadn’t come. Kian’s comments about us not being ready for a baby played loudly in my memory, drowning out Fang’s whispered words that he wanted children with me.
I knew where I fell.
I’d fallen in love with this baby the moment I’d seen the positive symbol on the test. I was already so in love with his or her daddy, no matter which one of them it was. Nothing bad could come from that.
And yet I hadn’t been able to tell them.
Bliss clutched my sleeve. “Do they know? I can’t believe you didn’t tell me immediately! Our babies are going to be besties! Or grow up to get married. We’ll be in-laws!”
She danced me around in a circle, and I couldn’t help it, her enthusiasm was infectious. “They don’t know yet. I was thinking about maybe buying one of these onesies and wrapping it up or something cringey like that…”
“Is it Vaughn’s?” Riva asked quietly.
Bliss and I stopped.
I couldn’t read Riva’s expression. It wasn’t exactly one of joy, but then I couldn’t really blame her. It was a lot for someone of her generation to try to process the relationship between me and her son and Kian and Fang. She’d been amazing so far, taking us all in, not commenting on the fact I didn’t have a bedroom and just slept in whichever of the guy’s beds I felt like.
We’d attempted to be discreet, but I was sure she realized that some nights, we were all in the one room, and when that happened, we weren’t actually sleeping at all.
“It might be,” I said to her truthfully. “I honestly don’t know.” I searched her face, hoping she would be understanding. “Please don’t tell anyone yet. I need to do that myself.”
That seemed to shake her out of her shock. She squeezed my fingers. “Of course, sweetheart. I wouldn’t ever dream of stealing that from you.” She gave me a wobbly smile. “I’m going to be a grandma. Maybe?”
I nodded fiercely. “It doesn’t matter whose biological baby it is. Vaughn will still be this baby’s father. I’m sure of it.”
As I said the words, I realized I truly believed them. Kian and Fang would be the same. I didn’t exactly know why I’d been so scared to tell them, when deep down, my heart knew it was true.
None of us had been careful about preventing this.
We were all grown adults. We knew this could happen.
Maybe some part of all of us had been searching for it. That little piece that would tie us together and cement us as a family.
Bliss smiled sweetly at me. “You’re having that moment when you realize this is the best thing that ever could have happened to you, aren’t you?”
I couldn’t stop the smile that spread across my face. “I think so.”
Bliss squealed again, which was so her thing, not mine, but it was kind of nice.
“Help me find something cute to wrap up for each of them,” I told her. “I’m so clumsy with words. It’ll be better if I just give them all a gift and then run away while they work it out.”
