John + Siena: Extended by Bethany-Kris

Author:Bethany-Kris [Bethany-Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
Published: 2020-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

“You don’t have to rush. Have a seat and let me plate some food. There’s no reason for you to run yourself ragged over a dinner, Siena. I can help. I know how overwhelming this family can be to cook for when we’re all in the same house.”

At the same time Siena’s mother-in-law tried to get her to relax, the doorbell for their home rang yet again. She passed Jordyn a look and added on a sigh for good measure. Just because. As if pregnancy didn’t make her exhausted enough—good God, could she sleep any more than she did now?—this dinner so she and John could announce their pregnancy to their family as a whole was going to have her sleeping for a good day or more. She could tell already.

Not that Jordyn knew she was pregnant.

Not yet, anyway.

Soon.

“Thanks,” Siena said to Jordyn as the noise picked up in the living room and the dining room at the same time. The Marcello family really was huge when they all got together in the same space. One didn’t notice as much when they were spread out, but John and Siena didn’t have a mansion in the hills to give a bit of space. Maybe they should, though … “But I knew what I signed up for with this. If you could plate some more food while I get that door, however, I would be forever grateful.”

Jordyn laughed and nodded where she stood behind the kitchen island. “I can definitely do that. No worries.”

“You’re a life saver.”

“No. Just your loving mother-in-law.”

Siena grinned. “I did get kind of lucky with you, huh?”

Jordyn shrugged. “Well, we wives had a good role model of our own, to be honest. Go get the door—I promise the kitchen is handled.”

“Perfect.”

Siena left the kitchen in as much of a hurry as she had come into it. Maybe her nerves had a part to play in why this dinner made her so anxious. Not that anyone made her feel that way—hell, they didn’t even know about the pregnancy yet, but still … it gave her pause. Their family only ever asked things out of love, but sometimes the way they asked it didn’t come out as positive as they meant for it to.

Would some ask if they were ready? Or about John? Perhaps his mental health or the current state of it?

Questions like those would undoubtedly dampen the happiness of the day, and it worried Siena. More than she wanted to admit, although she hadn’t told John any of that. It wasn’t like it would help him at all. It was bad enough that she worried about it constantly. He didn’t need to get the ideas stuck in his head, too.

Thankfully, it seemed John had grabbed the door before Siena even got a chance to reach the end of the hallway. She joined her husband who was currently greeting his therapist with a handshake and a nod. She didn’t hear what the two men said before she arrived, but she caught the tail end when John said, “And thanks for coming today.

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