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Omar scoffed. “A smell?”
“Well, strong smells can set off morning sickness pretty easily, and I was cutting onions for—” Omar scooped me up, and I scrambled to lock my legs around his waist for stability. “What are you doing?”
“Repeat what you just said,” he said.
“What? I was cutting onions, and the smell gave me — Oh.”
“You had morning sickness,” he said. “Does that mean you’re pregnant?”
This was not how I wanted to do this…but there was no going back now. “I am.”
Omar’s mouth split into a wide, joyous grin. “Really?”
I chuckled. “Do you want to see the test I took today?” I asked. “The results were pretty concrete.” Omar cupped the back of my neck and pulled me in for a kiss.
“You’re amazing,” he murmured against my lips. “Thank you.” A laugh bubbled up with a sob, and both sounds came out at once. Omar lovingly wiped my cheeks with the tips of his fingers. “These are happy tears, right,conejita?”
I nodded, kissing him again. “Of course,” I told him. “It wasn’t exactly how I thought this would go, but of course I’m happy.”
Omar’s smile dimmed for a moment, and I cursed opening my big mouth. We’d been talking about getting married, mostly just whispering to one another before going to sleep, but our life was on pause, waiting for Angel to call Omar home. The brothers hadn’t spoken in months, not since Omar called to tell Angel about the fire that destroyed the guns that they were storing: instead, they left it to Lili to run messages back and forth between them.
I cupped his face. “I am happy,” I said. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere other than where you are.” His expression was unreadable, but then he swung me around and started walking in the direction of the stairs. “Wait! Helena and I were working on chupe andino.”
Omar grunted. “It’ll keep until I’m done with you.”
A shiver ran down my spine, and my fingers carded into his hair. It was getting long, and while Helena had been offering to cut it, I liked that I could grab onto it a little. “You have plans for me?”
He hummed. “Several. Most involve you being a lot more naked than this.”
* * *
My fingers were just turning into prunes when I heard the bathroom door swing open. “Decided to join me after all?” I looked through the glass shower wall at him, and my body seemed to freeze. “Omar, what’s the matter?”
He stared at me, unseeing, for a long moment, and then he roughly tugged off the clothes that he’d thrown on so that he could step out to answer the call that had interrupted us. Omar slid the door back and stepped into the shower, hissing as the water hit him. “Are you trying to cook yourself,conejita?” He reached around me to the shower knobs and turned the heat down.
I looped my arms around his neck, trembling slightly as his body pressed against mine. “Who was on the phone?”
I knew the answer, and I nodded when he said, “Angel.”
“He wants you to go back.”
“Us,” Omar corrected, burying his face in my neck. “He wants us to come to the compound. Emma went into labor last night.”
“I know.”
He pulled back a fraction. “How do you know when I just found out?”
“Lili texted me.”
Omar’s expression was perplexed. “Since when are you texting my sister?’
I shrugged, not really sure when it happened, only that it had. Maybe working together to save Omar’s life had bonded us more than I thought. Maybe the fact that I had saved his life, when she hadn’t been able to, had eclipsed the fact that I was a Rojas in her eyes.
“Letting you two have unchaperoned texting privileges feels dangerous.”
I laughed, pressing a kiss to his chest. “The baby should be coming any time now.”
“They’ll probably be sent home from the hospital tomorrow, and Angel wants us there when they arrive.”
