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What did we do?
Oh, yeah.
I took her on a tour of all the places that Ed had taken his Gertie. The ones that were still around, that was. It was a hell of a month.
One I will never forget.
That was two years ago now.
And I loved Bridge more and more with every day that went by.
“Please stop,” she said as she sipped her coffee from a mug we’d picked up on our honeymoon.
I looked up from the spot on that mug that had me going back in time in my head and raised a brow at her from where I sat at the rickety table in the kitchen. Yeah, we kept saying we were going to replace it, but neither one of us had made a move to.
“Your lost in thought face. Really, Lake, I thought I told you that you needed to work on that years ago.” The corners of her lips twitched and I knew she was trying so hard to keep it together. “You look like you need to go to the bathroom in an emergency kind of way.”
“Yeah, I’ve been told it will scare the women away.” I chuckled and shook my head at her. “You must like it though, you’re still here.”
“Ehhhh…” she said and gave me that famous one-shoulder shrug.
“I love you,” I said sweetly.
“I love you, too.” And there was that soft face that was only for me.
“I was thinking…”
“You don’t say?”
“I was thinking,” I repeated a little more forcefully but I was just messing around and she knew it. “That we should have a part of us to pass these adventures on to.”
“Are you saying you want to have a baby with me, Lake?”
“Yeah,” I said not sure how she would feel.
Okay, so we’d been wrapped up in one another enjoying life and hadn’t really talked about this sort of thing yet.
“Good,” she said looking at me with a twinkle in her eyes. “Because I’m pregnant.”
“What?!” I screeched. And yeah, Maybe I was super excited about it. But also really fucking shocked. “You don’t just drop a bomb on someone like that, what is wrong with you?!”
“Seemed like a good time,” she said too damn casually.
“But you’re drinking coffee!” I knew all about the no-nos for pregnant women. I had some very overprotective brothers. One of them that seemed to keep his woman constantly knocked up. And they were always watching out for their women and making sure they didn’t do shit they weren’t supposed to.
“You didn’t even notice when I switched to decaf like a week ago,” she pointed out and well, no, I hadn’t.
“You’ve known about this for a week?”
“Lake,” she said looking at me too damn sweetly. “We’re having a baby.”
And so that made me stop and really think about it.
There was no way I could have kept the smile off of my face even if I wanted to.
“You’re going to be a dad,” she said because I still hadn’t said anything.
“I can’t fucking wait,” I said as I got up and rounded the table to kiss her. “Well, I can… like nine months because I know it has to cook in there for a little bit.” I placed my hand on her still flat belly.
