Sex, Vows & Babies: Wedding with a Baby Bump (Kindle Worlds Novella)

Author:Heather Hiestand [Hiestand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

The pub closed for Christmas and the twenty-sixth. Angela found herself back to work the next night. Most people were still busy with family, and her parents were out of town, visiting her aunt’s family in Roseburg, but Kenny and his perpetually disgruntled group of friends were sitting around the tables in front of the dartboard as usual.

“What did Elias give you for Christmas?” Vicki asked, turning away from the pass-through window where she was sending orders for buffalo chicken sliders through to Steve.

Angela waggled her wrist in her cousin’s direction.

“Oh, pretty,” Vicky cooed, checking out the diamond bracelet.

“It is, but it’s not very personal,” Angela said. “Should I be worried about that?”

“What would be personal?”

She shrugged. “Shells, maybe.”

“But you have so many already. You don’t have diamonds.”

“So not true anymore.” She pointed at her ears.

“Oh. My. God. That to-die-for bracelet and diamond studs?”

“For our one-month anniversary,” Angela said proudly. “That was yesterday.”

“Wow. If this is what you get for one month, I can just imagine what one year is going to be like.”

“It’s worrisome. I mean, he hasn’t been working the entire time I’ve known him.”

“It was an on-the-job injury, right? Maybe he’s still getting paid.”

“I hadn’t thought of that.” She rubbed her tongue over her lower lip. Her lip gloss, strawberry-flavored, was gone already. “Maybe that’s it. I’m just realizing that I don’t know him any better now than I did two weeks ago.”

“But you love him, right?”

“That’s like more of a soul-deep connection. We have that.”

“And the sex?”

“So good.”

Vicki lifted her hands, making a helpless gesture. “So what’s the problem?”

“I just want to know he can support all these babies he wants to make with me, I suppose.”

Vicki’s eyebrows went up. “Are you pregnant?” she whispered.

“I’m late, like really late,” she whispered back.

“So, like, he just looked at you and you got pregnant?”

“We forgot protection a few days after we met. I thought it was too early in the month to conceive, but I haven’t had my period since before I met him.”

“Wow,” she repeated. “You need to get a test.”

Angela reached for the shell charm hanging from her neck. “I know. I just didn’t have time over the holidays. I’ll get one tomorrow.”

“So then what happens, if you are?” Vicki grabbed an order of Cobb salad that Steve had just placed on the shelf.

Angela froze for a moment, wondering if Steve had heard, but intent on his work, he didn’t even glance at her. “Nothing changes. If we still go to Vegas for Valentine’s Day, I’d still be in my first trimester. I wouldn’t be showing.”

“We’re buying plane tickets soon, right?” Vicki glanced through the pass-through. “Steve, I still need a burger and fries for this table.”

“As soon as we pay off our credit card bills. Mine is due January seventh.”

“Mine, too,” Vicki said. “But isn’t Elias paying for everything?”

“I told him my budget and he said I could triple it. I used his credit card to book the rooms and the wedding chapel and everything.

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