Baby Makes Three (Ian's Story) by Abigail Barnette
Author:Abigail Barnette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pregnancy, maydecember, older man younger woman, pregnant heroine, pregnancy romance
Publisher: Abigail Barnette
Chapter Eight
Though the first words anyone had spoken after Penny and I had announced weâd be moving to the Bahamas had been, âIâm going to stow away in your suitcase,â no one had come to visit us. I didnât blame them; time seemed to move so much faster once we arrived, and before weâd had time to properly settle in, we were moving, again. We were ten weeks away from leaving when Pennyâs best friend, and former roommate, Rosa, got some unexpected time off.
It was something to do with bedbugs. I didnât ask for any details, aside from assurances that they wouldnât travel down with her.
In the days before Rosa arrived for her impromptu visit, Penny went into some kind of cleaning frenzy. She kept things fairly tidy already, and Iâd gotten much better about my own annoying housekeeping habits, so there wasnât much left to do. Penny found whatever she could, however. On the morning of Rosaâs arrival, Penny was on her hands and knees in our shower, frantically scrubbing the grout.
Though Iâd been cruelly banished to the downstairs bathroom for my morning ablutions, Iâd refused to tote all of my shaving things down there. I watched Penny over my shoulder in the mirror as she steered a toothbrush around the edges of the tiles. âYouâll probably be so busy showing her around that she wonât have a chance to inspect the grout.â
âI know,â she said, a wee bit testy. âItâs not just Rosa coming. Iâm nesting, and since thereâs nothing to really prepare for here, cleaning is my only outlet. Have you figured out a moving date, yet?â
I frowned at a spot Iâd missed on my cheek and went over it, again, with the razor. âNot yet, no. Just working out some last details.â
Last details like putting my foot down with Carrie, politely but firmly, as I would with any client who was being too pushy. She was still trying to negotiate with me about Panama; I hadnât closed off the idea completely, but her insistence that I supervise the entire project on site held me back. Iâd promised Penny we wouldnât move, again. I wouldnât go back on my word.
Penny groaned as she stood, a hand at the small of her back. It shouldnât have been attractive to me and she would very likely murder me if I expressed my opinion on the subject, but the more her shape changed, the more I wanted her. Iâd never considered pregnancy particularly sexy; carrying a baby was just something some women did, and Iâd never found it to be a turn-on or a turn-off. Maybe because she was the love of my life, carrying my children, sheâd triggered something primal in my brain. The new roundness of herâfrom her face where that one precious dimple had deepened to her breasts which, while lovely enough before, had become reminiscent of Jane Russellâs bust in Gentlemen Prefer Blondesâdrove me wild.
She, however, was not as enthusiastic.
Leaning on the counter beside me, she met my gaze in the mirror.
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