Page 47 of Breeze and Melodie

“Let’s go find out.”

She wrapped the tests in tissue and put them in her purse. After we washed our hands, she reached for the door.

“Hold up.” I stopped her, and our eyes met in the mirror.

“I love you.”

She smiled. “I loveyou.”

We shared a kiss before leaving the bathroom. Shyne and Raine were coming down the stairs as we stepped into the hallway. He was smiling like the Joker, and oddly enough, Icouldn’t read Raine’s expression. She didn’t look happy, sad, or mad . . . Maybe she was in shock.

“Based on that big ass grin on your face, you must’ve knocked my sister up again?”

“You damn right.”

“Congratulations! I guess we’ll both be waddling around Black Reign in a few months,” Melodie said.

Raine gasped before smiling and pushing her husband out of the way to get to her best friend. “You’re pregnant?”

“Yep!”

“Oh my God! Congratulations. I’m so excited for you.”

They embraced and squealed with delight, causing Shyne to shake his head.

“You weren’t this happy a minute ago,” he said.

“I needed a minute to process how I let you trap me twice. Now that I know me and my bestie are in this together, I couldn’t be more excited. Let’s go tell everyone the news.”

The two walked away, arm in arm, as if we weren’t present and the reason they were pregnant. At no point did they turn around to see if we were following. Soon, we heard the door leading to the deck open and close, and this time, I shook my head.

“This will be interesting.”

“Fa sho.” Shyne agreed with a nod before we headed outside.

“We can’t buy all three, baby.”

“I know, but I can’t decide. The first house has the best family room, the second has the best patio and deck, and the third has the best walk-in closet. I wish I could roll them all into one.”

It was Friday, and it had been just under a week since we discovered Melodie was pregnant. The following day, we sat down and compiled a list of must-haves for our future home. Once the list was complete, I reached out to a realtor, and we’d taken today off to look at a few houses. Although we’d only toured three houses, I was sure one of them was our future home.

“Do you want to keep looking?”

She shook her head. “No. It’ll only make our decision harder. I love something about all three and could see us raising our family in each of them.”

“I agree. The realtor said that others are interested, but no offers have been made yet. We can think about it for a few days, but I don’t want to wait too long.”

We continued to discuss different things we liked about each house as we headed to our first doctor’s appointment, which was the other reason we’d taken the day off.

“I’m a little nervous,” Melodie confessed as I parked in front of the building of office suites and turned the car off.

“Why?”

“I still don’t feel pregnant. What if the tests were false positives?”

“I won’t say that’s not possible because I’m sure stranger things have happened, but I don’t think that’s the case. Maybe our baby is taking it easy on you and showing signs that this will be an easy pregnancy. Think positive, baby.”

“My mom has always bragged about how easy her pregnancies were. Maybe it’s hereditary.”

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