Baby Fever: The Complete 5-Book Surprise Baby Romance Boxset by Nicole Casey

Author:Nicole Casey [Casey, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

11

Mal

Six and a Half Years Ago

I stared at Ella in stunned silence.

“What?” I said, unable to comprehend what she’d just said. “Are you sure?”

My sister shrugged her shoulders like she hadn’t just dropped the biggest bombshell of my life on my head.

“Yeah, I’m sure. She’s got a couple more months to go but I hear she’s huge!”

Bile rose in my throat but I forced it down.

“Who has seen her? Has she been back here?”

I was home for Christmas again even though I’d wanted to stay at Berkeley for the holidays and catch up on some work. Mom had warned me that I was needed at home. She hadn’t said why but I had a bad feeling that I was going to have any semblance of Christmas cheer ruined the minute I stepped off the plane.

So far, I wasn’t wrong.

“I don’t think she’s been back but my bitch-in-law went to her as soon as she heard she was becoming a grandma,” Ella sighed.

“And she’s only six months along?”

“Something like that,” Ella replied, her eyes narrowing. “Why? I thought you said that you and her never got it on.”

I shifted my eyes away, the burning in my chest increasing. I don’t know what was more devastating—learning that Blake was pregnant, or learning that she’d moved on so quickly after me.

I think I knew which the bigger blow to my ego was.

Had she just found a rebound guy right away or…?

I’d never know unless I asked her and given that she’d ignored every email and text I’d sent, I thought it was safe to say that she had honored her side of our goodbye. I knew why now—there was someone else.

God, that burned.

“You like her, huh? I don’t think the dad’s around. You should go visit her. I’m sure she’d be happy to have a friend.” There was sarcasm in Ella’s tone but I was seriously considering it. I stared at Ella in disbelief.

“She’s having the baby without the father? Why? Who is this asshole?”

Ella’s delicate eyebrows raised in surprise.

“Wow,” she murmured. “You really do have it bad for her. Trust me, little brother, you’re better off not getting involved. That family is—”

“Nuts, I know!” I snapped. I was so sick of listening to the same rhetoric about the Mavises. They weren’t any worse than we were in my opinion and it was getting really old when both sides had our own issues.

“Who is the father?” I asked again, anger rising in my blood. “Did he leave her?”

“She’s a big girl, Mal. She can take care of herself.”

She peered at me speculatively but I ignored her look. I was hot and cold simultaneously. I had no idea what to do now. Did I call her and demand answers? Of course not. She wasn’t my girlfriend. She’d never even been my girlfriend.

Had we even been friends?

No, I had to leave her alone because that was obviously what she wanted. I couldn’t force myself to be her friend.

On the other hand, if she was having a baby on her own…

“Mal!”

I turned my eyes back to Ella.

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