Page 11 of A Surprise Baby for the Wolf Shifter

“Are you sure I didn’t wake you up?” I asked, though my words came out sounding more like a statement. I headed to my dining room and took a seat at my small, round kitchen table.

“I’m sure. I’ve been somewhat awake. Just procrastinating getting out of bed,” she said.

“Lazy,” I said.

“Hey, you get up at five-thirty every morning and see if you don’t have mornings when you don’t want to get up,” she said. “And yes, thank you very much. Not all of us have the energy of a three-year-old.”

I chuckled softly. After several seconds, I sighed into the line. “You really think I should tell him?”

“Hey… it’s your body. But he helped to create that baby. He deserves to be informed of the baby at the very least. If you don’t want the baby and you guys don’t start a relationship over it, then he can take care of it, and you’ll be free to focus all your attention and energy on your career.”

“You make it sound so easy,” I muttered and propped my head up in my hand.

“Not necessarily. It won’t be easy, but you didn’t want this,” she said. “And you never know if you don’t at least try.”

“This is one of those ‘what have I got to lose’ scenarios, isn’t it?” I asked, running a hand through my hair.

“Yup. Keep me up to date with how everything goes,” she said.

“Will do,” I said.

“Again, you never know. He may surprise you,” she added.

I sighed again. “You’re right.”

“Of course, I am.” More shuffling filtered through the line. “Shit. I better go or I’ll have twenty-something three and four-year-old kids with way too much energy redecorating my room.”

I laughed, though my heart wasn’t in it. But I did feel better, so there was that. “You better hurry. Although I would love to see that.”

After a short laugh, we ended the call, and I sat in silence, staring at my walls. After a while, I stood up and went to check on the test. Part of me wondered if it had changed.

Wouldn’t that had been something? Surprise! We were kidding. But as I approached the thing, I realized with a sinking heart, that those things didn’t work that way. I heavily sighed and leaned against the door as the test glared at me from my periphery. I settled my attention on the thing and huffed out another sigh while a million questions continued to roll through my mind. The biggest one? Did I want to find Weylan?

Cassidy had a point. The guy had the right to know. Giving him a chance to have a say in what happened next was the least I could do. Sure, finding him could be difficult, but we had talked so much that night and I believed I had a good place to start.

If it turned out that Weylan wanted nothing to do with me or the baby, then at least I wouldn’t have that question hanging over my head years down the road. I would be free to make my own decision on how to proceed and live my life accordingly.

But I found difficulty setting my plan in motion. It seemed like there was so much at stake. So much riding on two little pink lines.

And the more I thought about Weylan, the more I wanted to see him again. The only problem was I had no idea if he wanted to have anything to do with me. I doubted it.

I blew out a raspberry and went to go pack. I could use the weekend to figure this out and make a decision. Once that was finished with that, I planned on calling my boss. She wasn’t going to be happy about what I had to say.

But this is my life. Job or not. I have a baby to think about and a man I wasn’t supposed to see again to find.

4

WEYLAN

The sun beat down on my back, warming me from the outside in and waking me from the blissfully endless sleep I didn’t want to be pulled from. I was having a very pleasant dream of Gemma, and when the alarm clock blazed through the image of her breast in my hand, seconds from me placing the soft flesh into my mouth, I struggled with not throwing the offending machine across the room.

Like the sun, Gemma was warm…

My life had been peaceful for the past couple of days. Tabitha seemed to have gotten the hint, which was a bigger blessing than I gave it credit for initially.

Gemma was also peaceful…

Her smile from my dream flashed through my mind. Seconds later, I shook the image from my head. I had to focus.

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