MAKER (The Men of Whiskey Mountain Book 4) by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

Marley

I'm pregnant. Very clearly pregnant.

I went to a midwife in town the day after I took the test and now it's been a few weeks. I heard the heartbeat and even if no one else will notice the swell of my belly, I feel it, a little bean that's growing there.

I’m lucky that I don't have morning sickness, but it's hard for me to eat much without feeling slightly nauseous. Still, I'm grateful I'm not waking up every day running to the bathroom because the fact that I live with my brothers who do not know and will not know that I’m carrying their niece or nephew, is really important right now. Until I talk to Maker face-to-face, I don't want them on some rampage looking for him.

They already got in a fight over my virtue and everyone left with bloody lips. I don't want to know what might come of the fact that I'm now pregnant with Maker's baby. Even as I think, a smile crosses my face. I'm so happy even though I have a hundred different reasons to be scared. I'm not. I'm hopeful. And God, it feels good.

In the kitchen I make breakfast for my brothers like I do most days. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, a pot of coffee and a jug of orange juice. And this is why they don't want me to go on dates, to fall in love, get married, live happily ever after. Because if I wasn't here in this kitchen, cooking and cleaning and taking care of them, then they would have to face the reality that they are bachelors without many prospects, because there aren't many options in Alaska.

There aren't hundreds of women waiting for a man to sweep them off their feet. Most of the girls who are born and raised here leave when they get the chance. And the ones that come later in their lives, they're usually hitched by the time they arrive.

My brothers are good guys. And they're well-intentioned but sometimes when it comes to me, it gets them in trouble. I want them to be happy. But first, before I can worry about their happily ever afters, I need to deal with my own.

When they come into the kitchen, I start dishing up their morning meal. As I place plates in front of them at the kitchen table, I tell them I need to take a boat out to visit my friend Bellamy today.

"You hiring someone to drive you?"

"Well, yeah, unless one of you want to. It's a three-hour drive both ways. It would be the whole day. I was thinking of getting a charter and staying the night.”

My brothers exchange glances. “Sorry, we can’t drive you. We're busy today."

"With what?” I ask.

They're fishermen, and they go out for weeks at a time with large crews. They're all home right now. And I know Jett's not leaving for another week to go out on the crab boat.

"Why can't you guys take me?"

"We actually have a meeting at the bank today,” Gavin says.

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