Mistake's Melody (Unquiet Mind Book 4) by Anne Malcom

Author:Anne Malcom [Malcom, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

I’d heard the heartbeat before, so I already had my embarrassing and tearful reaction privately.

Wyatt had not.

And he froze the second the sound filled our ears. Filled up the fucking room. He’d immediately snatched my hand.

I didn’t pull away.

Nor did I break any bones.

His eyes glittered as his gaze darted from the monitor to my stomach. He brought my hand up to his mouth, laying his lips on my fingers.

I shivered.

And I should’ve pulled away.

I didn’t.

His eyes met mine. “That’s our baby’s heartbeat,” he whispered.

I nodded.

“Been in a stadium full of thousands of people screaming so loud I almost popped an eardrum,” he said. “That sound makes the screaming sound like a whisper. And it’s so much more fucking beautiful than that.”

The words hit me.

Because he was right. I’d never heard anything louder or more beautiful than that sound. Or more terrifying.

I was going to be in charge of something that important. That life-altering. I was going to have a huge impact on whether that beautiful, pure and important thing was corrupted by my demons.

“Do you want to know the sex?” Dr. Adams asked after giving us a moment of silence, looking from the monitor to us.

“Yes,” I said at the same time Wyatt uttered “No.”

I snatched my hand back from his and glared up at him, thankful we had something to disagree upon to jerk us from the tender and dangerous moment.

“We’re knowing the sex,” I demanded. “I’m not having a fucking gender reveal party like those millennial assholes, and I’m not painting the baby’s room yellow and having to come up with two sets of names. There’s gonna be plenty of surprises when the baby comes, like what’s inside diapers and how much infants can cry, I don’t need any more.”

“We haven’t talked about the baby’s room,” he said instead of responding to everything else.

I was upset that his tone was still soft and weird and he wasn’t giving me the argument I needed.

“Well, it’s obviously going to have one, I’m not just going to dump it in a dresser drawer,” I snapped. “I’ve already organized movers to get rid of what I don’t need in my guest bedroom.”

His face twisted at this and he looked like he might say something, but instead he focused on the screen and the doctor. “I guess we do want to know since Emma has voiced her opinions on surprises and gender reveal parties.”

She grinned. “I think gender reveal parties are absolutely stupid too.”

Yeah, totally liked her.

She moved the wand around—not a great feeling—and peered at the screen. “Okay, so we’ve got a little girl in there.”

Wyatt froze.

So did I.

Likely not for the same reason.

I didn’t know why, but I’d expected it was a boy. I thought I’d do better with a boy. Somehow click better. It was so not in line with everything I believed about feminism and gender constructs, but I was too afraid of what I’d do with a girl. It was too close to what my parents had. What if I turned the girl into me?

“A girl,” Wyatt rasped.

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