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I shrugged. “Just making sure.” Lately, I’d just been feeling like something was missing. Like there was something more for our little family. “I want to fulfill all your dreams.”
“You are,” she reassured me, showing off her ring. “You always have.”
I kissed her forehead. “Good.” Standing up, I pulled the tie from my neck before offering her a hand up. “Should we go to bed?”
She fluttered her eyelashes. “Thought you’d never ask.”
It was a long time before we fell asleep that night.
ELLA
My lips curled into a smile as I stared into the mirror, my hair pinned up to expose the long curve of my throat—just the way he liked. I slid my hand over my stomach.
We were celebrating Cameron’s results from the bar exam tonight—he’d passed. Of course he had. He was too smart for his own good. But that was just one thing I loved about him.
It hadn’t always been easy, adjusting to life in the city while he’d been going to school full time. There had been long nights of studying, of sewing, of seven thousand balled up pieces of paper with designs I’d rejected, but we’d done it all together. Every little fight, every achievement, every night spent wrapped up in each other’s arms were ourstogether.
After his graduation this past spring, we’d gotten married over the summer in a gorgeous ceremony in the gardens at the New York Botanical Garden, and I’d never felt more like a princess—hisPrincess—than I had that day, dressed in an elegant white dress with a train that felt a mile long, and that didn’t even include the veil that had been pinned into my hair.
And now… I had one more piece of good news to share with him tonight. Thank God the nausea had subsided long enough for me to get ready for dinner.
“Ella?” Cameron cracked our bedroom door open, letting in our puppy with him. Bruno immediately curled up into his bed at the corner of the room.
“Hey, Charming.” I smiled as he padded towards me, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me into a hug.
“Hi, Princess.”
I wrapped my arms around his neck as he kissed my cheek, and I sighed into his hold.
“Good day?” I asked as he buried his face in my neck.
He mumbled, “Better now.”
“Are we still celebrating tonight?” I asked, running my fingers through the hair at the base of his neck.
“If you’re up for it. I made reservations. Sutton said the chef camehighlyrecommended.”
“Oh?” I grinned. I couldn’t help it. I was just too happy to keep it from him any longer. “Do you think they’ll be okay with me eating for two?”
“Two?” Cam looked confused for a moment before his eyes grew wide. “Ella. Are you?—”
I nodded, my eyes filling with tears as I grabbed the pregnancy test I’d taken earlier off the counter. “Surprise.”
“You’re pregnant.” He dragged in a deep, shaky breath.
“I know it’s fast, and maybe it’s too soon, but…” I was pretty sure it had happened after the opening night for my show. It hadn’t been long since I’d gone off birth control, so it was a surprise, but it wasn’t an unwelcome one.
“No.” He kissed me so tenderly my heart ached a little. “It’s perfect. You’re perfect.” He slid a hand over my still-flat stomach. “We’reperfect.”
I gave him a secret smile. “It’s stillreallyearly, so I don’t want to tell anyone yet.”
“Not even your sister?” Cam raised an eyebrow, knowing that Ro and I still talked every single day. Even if we’d both ended up in New York City, and saw each other often.
“I haven’t even told her,” I whispered. “I took the test this morning, after you’d left. I’ve been feeling nauseous lately, and I missed my period last week… But I wanted you to be the first to know.”
“Fuck.” His lips pressed against mine, more urgently this time, and I could tell it was taking all of his willpower not to throw me onto the bed, right then and there. “This is everything. All I wanted. You…” He looked down at my stomach reverently. “Them. Us. Our family.” His voice got all choked up.
“Still want to go to dinner?” I ask innocently, fluttering my eyelashes at him.
