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She watched him from between sleepy eyelids. “Do you mean the stress of the holidays? I’ve been handling that well.”
“Not that.”
“Lucas, I haven’t backslid. The coping mechanisms I’ve learned over the years are still effective. The theme is that you and I are choosing to live our own lives, not overcome our pasts. We’ve made progress.”
“I’m not talking about the eating disorders,” he said. “I’m talking about your everlasting nausea.”
“It’s indigestion.”
“The headaches.”
“Because I was getting sick.”
“Rai, when was your last period?”
Her eyes flung open.
He recalled as many of their times together as he could. Since day one, it had been nonstop, even on the days when they should have been logically too tired to make love.
“Come inside me, Lucas.”
“I want to have your baby, Lucas.”
“I want it, Lucas.”
“I love how it feels spilling out of me.”
“I’m saying that I think you’re pregnant.”
“What would make you…” She looked up toward the ceiling as if recalling the same moments. “Okay, I see your point, but my last period was…well, they already weren’t regular.”
“How about this? Statistically, how often did I pull out? You’re better at mental math than I am.”
“Assuming we’ve had sex one hundred times, at least, you’ve pulled out…” She tapped an invisible calculator. “Yeah, I might be pregnant. Then, it didn’t help that I would wrap my legs around you. I’m sorry.”
“Trust me. I’m not.”
There’d been no better feeling than coming inside her hot, silky flesh, and they were both adults. They’d understood the risks. The sex just happened to be out of this world.
“We should probably get a test done while we’re here,” she said.
The hospital happily obliged them, and before midnight, they had their answer: Lucas and Raina Saraci were going to be parents.
ChapterTwenty-Three
They kept her overnight.
The hospital wasefficiently kindenough to do an ultrasound to confirm what the bloodwork had shown. She appeared to be roughly six weeks along, and she’d held Lucas against her so often, she didn’t know what memory of her keeping him hostage while telling him to come inside her was the big moment.
Fear didn’t come.
At least, not the fear she’d expected.
The only two things she feared were how this would change things between her and Lucas, and she was terrified of anything happening to the little blip on the ultrasound monitor.
As far as her marriage, if he didn’t want this, she was prepared to do it on her own. Lorelei was a single parent. Plus, she had a supportive and healthy family network. However, Raising a child alone meant she wouldn’t have Lucas, and she loved him. She loved him with everything in her. She wanted this forthem,not for herself, and it wasn’t like they hadn’t known their luck wouldn’t have run out.
Yet, it made her wonder.
