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I buzz them up and open the door for them. I head to the kitchen to kick-start the coffee machine, knowing they’ll want caffeine after theirshift.
“Lilly, what the fuck is going on? You have a lot of explaining to do, young lady,” Imogen announces as they enter theflat.
I turn towards them and they both stop in theirtracks.
“Shit, what’s wrong?” Eve asks, starting to move again with her arms open. She wraps me in a hug and I burst into tears. Imogen follows suit, and that’s how Taylor finds us a few minuteslater.
“Oh, gang bang in the kitchen. Just my style, ladies,” he announces as he heads our way. That is, until the girls pull back and he gets a look atme.
“Shit, chica.” He engulfs me in his arms and it’s almost as comforting as a hug fromDec.
Taylor takes over coffee duty, seeing as he’s had Morrison training on how to use the machine, and I get ushered to thesofa.
Imogen and Eve hold the questioning until Taylor joins us with three coffees and a pot of tea forme.
“Go on then. And start from the beginning; we want to know how you ended up shagging theKing.”
I give them a basic run down of how that happened, while Taylor waits anxiously to find out the latestdevelopment.
“Is he as good as everyone says?” Imogenasks.
“I can’t speak for Lilly, because I wasn’t in the room. But it sounded fucking hot. He’s a machine,” Taylor answers forme.
When they both turn to look at me, I’m tomato red. It’s clear I don’t need to add anything to Taylor’sstatement.
“So what’s happened to get you like this?” Taylor asks, skipping over the detail of sex withLucas.
“I’mpregnant.”
“You’re what?” Taylor screeches in shock. He’s the only one in the room who understands the significance of my statement, but he’s loyal to the core and won’t say anything until the girls haveleft.
“Oh my God! The King got you pregnant,” both Imogen and Eve say at the sametime.
“And it’stwins.”
“Of course it is,” Taylor mutters as he takes a huge sip of his coffee, burning his mouth in the process. “I think I need something stronger thanthis.”
“Lilly, how many cups of tea have you had?” Eve asks me when Taylordisappears.
“Uh…” I think about the answer, but I haven’t really been keeping track. “Probably five or six today.Why?”
“You need to cut down. You can’t have that much caffeine while you’repregnant.”
“I haven’t had any coffee,” I say, trying to make it sound better because I feel awful that it hadn’t occurred tome.
“You are going to need decaffeinated tea, Lilly.” The look I give Eve in response must tell her exactly how I’m feeling. “It’s okay, hon, you’ll figure it out. You’ll be better than me. I was clueless when I was pregnant with Elissa, but I managed and she’s still alive and healthy,” she says with a laugh as she squeezes my shoulders in support. “Any questions you have, just ask. I think I got every symptom in the book so I should have an answer foryou.”
Two hours later, Imogen and Eve leave. Taylor has been giving me the eye since my announcement earlier, so I know I’m in for another round of questions any minute. All I want to do though is collapse in mybed.
“Go on then, explain,” he says, the second I’ve shut the door behindthem.
“I can’t really, Tay. I spoke to my doctor earlier and she said that no one ever said it was impossible, just unlikely. If I was aware there was any chance, we would have been usingprotection.”
“I can’t believe the prick’s just disappeared on you. I knew he wasn’t good enough for you. Didn’t I saythat?”
“No. I’m pretty sure you were too busy staring at him to say much,” I say, trying to bring some humour into the conversation. It’s only been a day and I’m already fed up of being in this strangemood.
“I’ll see if I can put off my job for a bit,” Taylor says when he comes back in with another drinkeach.
“Don’t be stupid. You are not putting your life on hold because of my baddecisions.”
“Are you sure? I don’t want to leave you herealone.”
“I’m not alone, I have those two nutters,” I say, gesturing to the door where Imogen and Eve left a while ago. “Plus my family. I’ll befine.”
Taylor nods, but I’m not sure he’s convinced. I’m going to need to prove to him that I can cope withthis.
