Awk-weird (Ice Knights) by Avery Flynn

Author:Avery Flynn [Flynn, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: City Life Fiction, Contemporary Romance Fiction, New Adult & College Romance, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Coming of Age Fiction, Sports Romance, American Humorous Fiction, Avery Flynn, hartigans, Harbor City, butterface, Muffin Top, Tomboy, Parental Guidance, Daddy Dilemma, Entangled Publishing, Amara, Single Title Romance, sexy romance, Popular Romance, Stand Alone Romance, RomCom, Romantic Comedy, Friends to Lovers Romance, Forced Proximity Romance, one night stand, Surprise Pregnancy, Hockey Player, Wedding, Humorous Romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-10-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cole was late. He hated being late but especially for this. He vaulted up the stairs to Tess’s doctor’s office two at a time and hurried into suite 244. All the women in the crowded waiting room and the bored receptionist looked up when he strode in—none of them was Tess.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuckity fuck.

“You looking for someone?” the receptionist asked, her gaze already back on her computer screen.

“Tess Gardner,” he said, keeping his voice barely above a whisper in the silent room.

“She’s already gone back,” she said, still not looking up, her fingers flying across her keyboard. “Hold on and one of the nurses will walk you to the ultrasound room.”

Cole looked around while he waited, too nervous to sit down in one of the chairs even if there’d been one available. That’s how he clocked the woman in the corner doing a not-so-subtle job of taking a creeper shot.

Shit.

Yanking down the brim of the ball cap he’d worn in hopes of disguising himself, he did his best to shrink back into the corner. However, at six foot three and the only dude in the room, he wasn’t exactly blending.

He’d have to let the team PR guru, Lucy, know. The press would have a field day figuring out why he was here, who he was with, and everything about Tess. He wasn’t about to let that happen. She hadn’t signed up for that kind of scrutiny any more than she’d asked him to use expired condoms.

Way to just totally fuck up someone else’s life plan, Phillips.

The door to the hallway leading to the exam rooms opened up and a guy in scrubs with baby rattles all over them peeked out. “Tess Gar—”

“That’s me,” Cole said, rushing forward before the guy could announce Tess’s full name to Ms. Nosy and the rest of the room.

They went straight to the door at the end of the hallway, where Mr. Rattle Scrubs knocked, waited for Tess’s “come in,” and opened the door for Cole to walk in first.

Tess was lying down on an exam bed, her bottom half covered with one of those paper sheet things. She was gnawing on her bottom lip, her eyes huge behind her glasses.

“Sorry I’m late,” he said as he loitered in the doorway, not sure where to go or what to do. “Traffic coming in from across the bridge was a nightmare.”

“More than three hundred thousand cars go over the bridge every day,” she said. “It’s the only fourteen-lane suspension bridge in the world.”

He walked toward her, stopping at the foot of the exam table. “And I would have done commuter battle with all three hundred thousand to get here for this.”

She gave him a little nod, and some of the tension in his body loosened.

“If we’re ready to do this, then you should go stand over there near Tess’s head. There’s a chair if you want to sit down, or you can stand,” Mr. Rattle Scrubs said. “Then I’ll dim the lights and we’ll get started.

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