Nickolas by Kathi Barton

Author:Kathi Barton [Barton, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781937085216
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Published: 2011-05-31T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Pregnant. If she was, and she wasn’t admitting to anything right now, then she’d be ten weeks. She rubbed her hand over her flat belly and shuddered. A baby. Nickolas’ baby. He would never believe her.

Morgan had made Byron promise that he wouldn’t say anything to anyone.

Not even his mother. Especially not his mother. It could be just a mistake.

“Right. A mistake. You are living in a fantasy world if that’s what you think.

I won’t tell anyone, but you have to go and have a test done. Immediately. Take it to Damon. He can be discreet, and if he doesn’t, then I’ll kill him too.”

“No! No killing. Promise me. I’ll go take one of those home thingies and see if

...I’ll take one tomorrow. Do you promise not to murder anyone? I’ve been to prison and you’d never make it on the inside. You’re much too pretty. You’d be someone’s boy-toy in no time flat.”

“I promise. But you have to go to Damon if it turns out positive. If you don’t, then I’m going to take it back.”

“All right. Okay.”

She’d gone into three different drug stores on the way home. The buses she had to take to get home stopped that many times, and she made that many purchases. At the first one, she bought three tests and a calendar. She wanted to make sure of her dates. And sitting in the parking lot of the second store waiting for the next leg of her journey, she realized that she hadn’t had a period since before Halloween. At the next stop, she bought four more tests, two candy bars, a can of chips, and a box of condoms. When she came out of the third shop, she had four more tests and three bags of stuff she didn’t remember purchasing.

When she opened the door to her room, she emptied all the bags on the table and sat down and cried again. She had purchased a total of eleven tests, two bags of candied hearts that said things on them, stables for a stapler she didn’t own, a toothbrush, hair spray that she never used, the can of chips, seven candy bars, three boxes of condoms and an infant sleeper. Bright blue.

Morgan didn’t sleep a wink all night. She had laid all four of the tests out on the back of the toilet that night before going to bed, wanting to be ready in case she had to pee sometime in the middle of the night. Of course, she couldn’t have peed if her life depended on it right now, but she wanted to be ready.

By eight-thirty, she got up and took the first test. She was shaking so badly that she wasn’t even sure she’d hit the mark. She pulled open the second one before she’d even set the timer for the first one. She laid both sticks on the counter and left the room. If she sat there watching them, she’d go nuts...well, nuttier anyway.

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