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When the nurse left, my mom immediately gazed at me. “Now, go to the bathroom and pee on the sticks.”

“Don’t say it like that.”

“But that’s the fun way to say it!” She protested. The twinkle in her eye after so many weeks of sickness almost made it all the stress she was giving me worth it. Almost.

I rolled my eyes and went into the bathroom, hoping that I was going to be able to prove my mother wrong. Besides, I didn’t even know if now was a good time to have a baby. I doubted that I was even remotely prepared. Surely that counted for something, biologically.

I peed on both tests and then waited the two minutes until they were both ready. I gasped.

Both of the tests were positive.

13

Ezra

Today was the day. I was finally getting to see Quinn again, and my heart was racing from pure excitement. I’d been counting the days ever since she’d told me that she was moving her mother into a nursing home. It’d been three days and then two, and then, finally, one. Now, I was getting to see her even though I knew that it wasn’t going to be the best reunion.

She would see me and then I was going to be forced to break her heart. Nothing in me wanted to hurt her, and parts of me were still saying that I didn’t have to do this, that I could take the words back before they were even said. But I knew the truth. This had to be done, whether I wanted it to or not.

Ginny had already gone home. She’d been paid for three weeks, and her final day was yesterday. I would have liked for her to stay so that I could offer her the full-time position, but she had other people that she had to tend to. Her next clients weren’t even in the country, as crazy as that was.

Apparently there were people that could pay more than even me, and I didn’t begrudge her the opportunity to travel and make another family happy.

Her leaving was probably for the best, honestly. Paige hadn’t clicked with her like she had with Quinn. And how was I even going to find someone that Paige liked as much as the blonde? Was it an impossible task? Whether it was or wasn’t, I had to try anyway. This was the best decision that I could make, and I was sure about that even if others didn’t agree with me.

One of those others was my brother, Klaus. He was sitting at the kitchen bar, shaking his head, in disappointment. For once, I’d noticed that he was actually serious, which was very unlike his normal attitude. He was the king of jokesters, yet when it came to Quinn, he was acting as if me firing her was a real injustice.

Why did he have to be so dramatic?

Paige was upstairs in her room, playing around with some of her toys, which I thought was for the best. I didn’t want her to hear me firing the best nanny that she’d ever had…and the only one that she’d ever loved.

“You don’t have to do this,” Klaus reminded me for the millionth time. He’d been on her side ever since I told him that I was going to fire her. He didn’t see my reasoning for it. All jokes about her good looks aside, he said that she had a work ethic unlike any of my other hires. And maybe he was right. But our relationship had just gone too far.

I sighed. “Yes I do.”

“This is going to crush her.”

“I realize that.”

“Then why are you doing it?”

“Because we slept together!” I snapped. “And I want her constantly. She can’t mess up my life like this.”

“All because Gabriella died?” he asked. “And now you can’t open yourself up to any woman? Are you even hearing yourself right now?”

“It’s my decision, Klaus,” I reminded him. “Not yours.”

“And you’re making the wrong one.”

“Maybe I am,” I said, simply. “But that’s up to me to make that judgement. I don’t have any other options.”

“You have other options,” Klaus argued with me. “You’re choosing not to use them. When are you planning on telling her anyways?”

“After I pick her up.”

“And you don’t think it’s douchey at all to give her such bad news after she’s had to worry about her mother for the last three weeks?”

“Her personal life is none of my concern.”

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