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But, as I stared at the stick in my hand and waited, my mind started to drift back to Alex. I didn’t want to panic, but what would he say? We had both been so caught up in the moment that night. What would he even think if I turned up pregnant?
I stared in utter shock as the positive lines appeared, far too bold for me to even begin to question how accurate they were.My stomach turned and twisted all over again, and before I was even able to make it out of the bathroom, I was vomiting into the toilet with the same force I had been into the garbage can.
My two sisters were talking out in the other room. I could hear the hum of their hushed conversation, but they both fell silent when I returned. Saying nothing, I dropped the positive test on the counter next to Angela.
“Oh shit,” she said.
“It’s positive?” Teresa asked with raised eyebrows. “Well, there’s a plot twist for you.”
“I’m such an idiot,” I groaned as I sat back down and buried my face in my hands. “What the fuck was I thinking?”
“Like I said, I don’t blame you one bit,” Angela told me. “I thought he was quite the hunk when I saw him.”
“I’m pregnant!” I said. “How the fuck am I going to do anything I’ve been planning to do now?”
“Oh, come on, we spend our lives around kids,” Teresa told me. “It’s not like you’ve gotten a death sentence or you’re going to jail. It’s a baby.”
“You know what I mean,” I said as I looked up. “Having a child doesn’t exactly go hand in hand with growing a business or going to school, does it?”
“You know, I would put those things on the back burner right now if I were you,” Angela said. “This is kind of a big deal, and not just to you, if you know what I mean.”
I bit my lower lip. I knew exactly what she meant, and I had no idea how to even begin to approach that idea.
“What am I going to tell Alex?” I asked, mostly thinking out loud.
“Congratulations?” Teresa suggested. “I mean, it’s not like he’s not already got one kid. So, there’s that.”
“He’s got a kid with his ex-wife,” I snapped. “Not his daughter’s nanny.”
“I would say now he has a kid with both,” Angela remarked. “And if he’s as good of a guy as you’ve said over the past couple months, then I’d say he’s not going to freak out about this.”
“The only way you’re going to know for sure is if you talk to him, which I think you should now make priority,” Teresa said. “You want to call him?”
“No,” I told her. “I think this is the sort of conversation that should be had in person, and considering I’m going to need to figure out how to tell him, I’ll probably wait until I see him on Monday.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Angela said, and Teresa agreed. They then both went back to their normal conversation and bickering, but I found it nearly impossible to concentrate. I couldn’t believe I was pregnant. My mind was racing with all kinds of different scenarios, and I had no idea how to even begin to address this.
All I knew was that I had to talk to Alex.
And Teresa was right.
It had to be soon.
Chapter Eighteen
Alex
The sunshine poured in through the window, and the sheer curtains swayed gently in the morning breeze.
The sound of seagulls crying in the distance reminded me of where I was. I’d convinced Cassie to come with me down to the Caribbean for the weekend, and she’d eagerly accepted.
I’d gotten us a private jet for the flight down, and rented us our own island to spend a few days enjoying each other. We had so much sex on the plane, I had hoped it would be a foreshadowing of how things would be when we got to the island.
And fuck, the sex was almost constant.
I heard Cassie in the bathroom of our bungalow. She was just getting out of the shower, and the sound of the water turning off was soon followed by the sound of the blow dryer. I waitedon the bed, eager for her return. She would be naked, of course, so I slid out of my basketball shorts and t-shirt, making my intentions for her return obvious.
I sat on the bed with only the thin sheet across my lap, already hard as I waited for Cassie. She was humming while she was in the bathroom, and to me, her song was angelic. Everything about her was angelic, and with each passing day we spent together, I considered more and more asking her to officially be my girlfriend.
