Page 71 of Only for Tonight
“That’s what I like.” I curl up and wrap my legs and my arms around her. “When you smile.” I kiss her neck before she melts into me. “It’s going to be okay, baby.”
“You promise?” she asks me.
“Absolutely,” I say to her and she looks up at me, while I smirk at her, “not.”
twenty-five
Ariella
The car stops and I look up, seeing I’m at the airport. I grab the bag from beside me. “Thank you so much,” I say as I open the door and get out of the car.
Putting the bag over my shoulder, I head straight into the terminal and to security. It’s too early in the morning for there to be so many people here, I think to myself as I stand in line waiting to be screened.
I grab my phone and pull up the text thread that I have with Lexi and Zoey.
Me: At the airport and on my way to tell my parents I’m with child.
I glance at the top corner of the phone and see it’s just a bit past six in the morning, and I doubt either of them are up. But I’m somehow not shocked when Lexi answers me first.
Lexi: You sound like you are having an immaculate conception instead of you got caught with your pants down.
Me: No one caught us doing anything.
Lexi: On a scale of one to ten, how nervous are you?
Me: One trillion.
Zoey: Will you FaceTime us so we can see his face?
Me: No.
Lexi: I mean, he’s going to freak out for sure.
Zoey: I think he’s going to freak the fuck out.
Me: Thank you so much, you two, for calming me. SO thoughtful.
Zoey: It’ll be fine, Jaxon will be there with you.
Lexi: When Zara told my dad, he called it a mistake and it really hurt her feelings. But then Gabriel was all like King Kong and said I’ll take her away and you’ll never see her again.
Zoey: Ohhh, I’d like to see what Jaxon would do if that happened.
Me: You two are the worst, honestly.
Lexi: It’ll be fine. What is the worst that can happen?
Zoey: They disown her and never talk to her again.
Lexi: Zoey.
Me: Zoey.
Zoey: What?
Zoey: It’ll be fine. Text us after and tell us everything.
Me: Maybe.
