Page 129 of Fall Into Temptation
“I’m just nervous. I don’t want to have a conversation about it until I tell Niko. Do you think he’ll be happy?”
Eva grinned at her sister. “Niko is going to freak out in the best possible way. Family has gotten a lot more important to him since he met you.”
“It’s still a big surprise,” Emma breathed.
“How about you?” Gia asked. “How do you feel?”
Emma took a breath and stared at the ceiling. “So. Fucking. Excited,” she grinned. “I have to get all the f words out now before I have the baby.”
Eva hugged her sister. “I’m going to be an aunt again!”
Gia elbowed her way in. “I’m going to be an aunt for the first time!”
Summer joined in. “Our family is growing!”
Eva poked her head up out of the mob. “Get in here, Joey.”
Joey rolled her eyes. “I don’t know why you guys have to hug about every damn thing.”
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Beckett arrived a few minutes later with a pitcher of Long Island iced tea.
“What happened to your eye?” Summer asked, tut tutting over Beckett’s bruise.
“Why don’t you ask Eva how she got caught breaking and entering to have sex with her boyfriend last night?” Beckett grinned.
“We had a key! Technically it was only trespassing!”
Joey made a grab for the pitcher and high-fived Eva on her way past. “Nice job on the creative sexing.”
“I said I was sorry,” Eva reminded Beckett. “We just got… carried away.”
Gia swooped in and pressed a kiss to Beckett’s mouth. “Thank you for the Beckett Bartended Booze,” she said.
He kissed her back. “I’m going to take Lydia to go pick up Aurora from Sanjay’s birthday party.”
“You’re the best husband in the universe,” Gia sighed, snuggling against his chest. “I’ve officially forgiven you for thinking I left a lit candle blazing away in my studio.”
Beckett met Eva’s gaze over her sister’s head, and he winked. It was exactly the kind of thing Gia would do if Beckett hadn’t given her battery-operated candles.
The cleanup continued amongst snippets of conversation. Baby names, gossip gleaned from Book Club, and stories about the kids were punctuated by the scrape of broken glass and the rustle of trash bags. The day was sunny enough, warm enough, that Eva opened the windows. The fresh October breeze did its part in sweeping out the bad energy.
It was looking normal again. Sure, there were some new gouges in the hardwood floor, and some things weren’t salvageable—like her cracked-in-half mermaid sugar bowl. But overall, Eva felt like she was taking her home back. At least Agnes hadn’t gotten into the dishwasher where an entire load of clean dishes waited.
Eva picked up a coffee mug and tucked it into place in the cabinet. The shiny white pack on the shelf caught her attention. Her birth control pills.
It took a full five seconds for her to register the fact that they were in the cabinet and not in her purse. Meaning she hadn’t taken one since before the break-in. Shit.
Her stomach did a slow, scary loop-de-loop when she opened the pack. Running the calculations she stopped breathing. She wouldn’t have missed this many pills just since the break-in. She’d fucked up at least twice earlier in the month.
Eva snapped the pack shut and closed her eyes. She hadn’t taken them with her the night of her first B.C. meeting. The night she and Donovan had made love for the first time. But they’d used a condom. But they hadn’t when he’d snuck into her house the night of the Apple Butter Boil. Eva paced the tiny kitchen, nibbling on her thumb nail.
This couldn’t be happening. She could not be pregnant to a man she’d been dating for less than a month. Oh, my God. There was a possibility that there was a Baby Cardona inside her at this exact second, and she’d just had a Bloody Mary.
She doubled over and tried desperately to find the oxygen that had gone missing from the room. She needed to buy a pregnancy test.And just how in the hell was she supposed to do that in Blue Moon without the entire town hearing about it before she’d even peed on the stick?
“You okay?” Summer asked, bustling back into the kitchen, a laundry basket full of unrolled toilet paper in hand.
