Chapter 15
Gage
When we made it back from the run, I had pulled off and into a pharmacy.
Something in the back of my mind told me I had been right.
She had a great time, other than puking every morning, and it hadn’t been my imagination that her breasts had gotten fuller either.
Climbing off the back of my bike, I tugged her with me after we took off our helmets and headed straight for the aisle where I had to buy tampons before and noticed the pregnancy tests were in the same location.
Thankfully, since Collins had wanted to spend the night with Laci, it was just us.
“What are we doing here?”
I pointed at the pregnancy tests when her face got pale and her hand tightened in mine. “But… but I have an IUD. I can’t be pregnant. You know this.”
She told me that when we had sex the first time, that if she really was mine, then she wanted to be mine and me hers no matter what and that nothing was going to separate us.
Now wasn’t the time for me to start getting hard when immediately I recalled how fucking fantastic that moment had felt when I slipped into her for the first time with nothing between us.
She looked down at my growing reaction and glared. “Really? You’re getting hard now?”
“Baby girl, I remembered how it felt when I slipped into you for the first time. Give me a break.”
Two women and a man had been walking behind us and they each snorted with laughter.
Ten minutes later, we were back on the bike, then in her house that I had all but moved into, and we were in the bathroom as I unboxed both tests.
She had grumbled, well, sort of at first, but I had my way.
Grabbing two of them from different boxes, I handed them to her and said, “Take them.”
“Why Gage?” She still grabbed them as she looked at me like I had grown a second head.
And maybe I had but then I let everything I had been thinking come out in a rush, “Because you had a hankering for peanut butter weeks ago. I haven’t been sent to the store to get more tampons. Your boobs are bigger, and you bit my head off for not washing out my cup before I put it in the dishwasher.”
I watched as she took two tests, peed on them, and then handed them to me.
The box said you had to wait for three minutes, but no way was I leaving this bathroom without knowing the answer.
After she flushed and washed her hands, I wrapped her in my arms as we stared at the test.
And then as one line became two into plus symbols on both tests, I rested my chin atop her head and smiled, “You were saying?”
She elbowed me in the ribs, then I turned her in my arms and dropped to my knees.
With my eyes level with her belly, I lifted her t-shirt up and pressed my lips on her belly, giving it a soft kiss.
“Hey there, little one, you don’t know me yet, but I can’t wait to meet you. I can’t wait to see the color of your eyes that are going to allow you to get by with just about anything. I can’t wait to see the shape of your lips when you tell someone off for messing with your sister and your momma. I can’t wait to see the color of your hair, and I can’t wait to hold you. So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gage, and I am your daddy. Whether you are a boy, you’re going to be kick-ass, or if you are a girl, then I must come up with another b name for you because your big sister claimed buttercup.”
Conleigh had tears in her eyes with my declaration.
Standing up as my hands roamed her ribs, I asked, “Are you sure you’re okay with this? We’ve never had that talk?” And if she wasn’t, then that would just about break me, but I would stand by her no matter what.
“After what you said to our baby, you ask that now?” Her eyes shone with mischief. “Yes, I am happy about all of this. Our baby is going to be loved beyond measure. He or she is going to come out and amaze the world, the same as Collins. And they are going to break the mold just as you did when you were created.”
Tightening my hold on her, I said, “I love you, Conleigh. I know this is so cliché, but seriously, thank you for making me the happiest man alive.”