Page 106 of A Wrench in the Plan
I froze in his arms, my whole body stiff as a board. All I could hear was the sound of my heartbeat pounding in my ears.
Did I hear him right?
Did he saypregnant?As in, she has a baby in there?
Why the fuck did he seem so calm about this?!
“Breathe,” he whispered as he placed a kiss on my lips. I couldn’t kiss him back, mainly ’cause I still couldn’t move.
The kettle whistled and I jumped.
“Chry?”
“Huh?!” I said in a volume that gave away my panic.
“Talk to me.”
“I… I… uh, um…” I couldn’t get anything out. My mind was blank. Terrifyingly blank.
Ev released me to make her tea, and I could do was stand there like a fuckin’ statue.
Okay, so I’d had these thoughts before of Cat being knocked up with my kid. Wasn’t a surprise given the fact that I came inside her every time we fucked. Even though she was on birth control, I knew that didn’t always work. I tried my best not to overanalyze those thoughts, or the fact that they made me so fucking hard. I liked the idea. But there was a difference between having a fantasy about it and it turning out to be real, especially when it was a baby we were talking about.
“How did this happen?” I asked the universe.
He chuckled at me. It did not do a damn thing to ease my nerves.
“Think about it, babe,” he said calmly.
“Iamthinking about it. I know how babies are made,” I scoffed. “But, I mean… what are we going to do?”
“Have a baby,” he came back with like it was that simple and he wasn’t freaking out even a little.
And as I stood there, letting it sink in, I realized that in his calmness he was telling me it was okay. That he was happy about this. That it wouldn’t change anything between the three of us. I realized that was what had me freaked out the most.
Hell, a kid could have three parents. Why the fuck not?
Cat was going to be a mom.
Evan and I were going to be dads.
Oh shit!
“We’re gonna be dads,” I said, trying to keep my voice down but still sound excited.
Because I suddenly was. I was happy about this.
“If she is pregnant, then yes, babe, we’re gonna be dads.”
“That’s so awesome,” I said pulling him into me. I planted a kiss on his lips.
“It really is. But we should share this excitement with her. I’m sure she’s panicking over it, and it’s worse because she doesn’t have a clue how we’ll feel about it.” He paused, eyes lost in a thought that I wish I could see because his face looked so damn happy. “She’s going to make such an amazing mother.”
“Fuck, yeah, she is.”
He chuckled at me and shook his head.
He grabbed her mug of tea while I snatched up a new sleeve of saltines. Then we carried them to the bedroom where a green-looking Cat was sitting in the bed with a bucket in front of her in case she didn’t make it to the bathroom. She hadn’t tossed her cookies yet today, but she was feeling like she would at any second.
