Something Blue by Emily Giffin

Author:Emily Giffin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Psychological fiction, Contemporary Women, London (England), Rejection (Psychology), General, Psychological, Americans, Fiction, Pregnant women
ISBN: 9780312323868
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-03-28T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

SURI

Today, after I practice lacing up Lizzy’s dress two more times, and Merri practices helping me lace it, I walk through the buildings. Everything is perfect: carpet, paint, wall hangings. The Love Inc. Ranch is re-opening soon, which means it’s only logical that I should leave.

Except that I don’t want to.

I’ve come to really care about Marchant, and he acts like he cares about me. So it will be okay. I’ve been talked up by Merri and Liz, who have, together, convinced me I can do this.

I go to the cottage, and find Marchant in the kitchen, wearing an apron and cooking omelets.

He stops what he’s doing, and comes over and kisses me on the cheek, then pulls out a bar stool for me. “Sit down. You look tired.”

“I am,” I tell him.

“What’d you do today?”

I tell him, and he sits beside me as we eat, and he tells me he told Cross about him being bipolar.

“What was that like?” I ask.

“Better than people thinking I’m an addict.”

“Good.” I wrap my arm around him. “I thought maybe it would be, once you got used to it.”

“He didn’t act weird about it. Not really.”

“Cross isn’t judgmental or anything. I think he likes you.”

“Yeah?”

I smile gently, and with our gazes all hung up on each other, we lean slowly together for a kiss. It’s like Lady and the Tramp, Omelet Edition. And it ends with Marchant swooping me up and carrying me to our room, where he strips my clothes off, pushes my legs apart, and uses his mouth to show me how he feels about me.

And it couldn’t be more fitting.

Except, it kind of sucks for him, because before he can have sex with me, I roll over on my side and say, “Marchant—I’m pregnant.”

I watch his face carefully, screening for shock. But instead, he just nods slowly. “I thought you might be.”

“What? It’s because my stomach, isn’t it?”

He shakes his head, grinning like an idiot. “It’s because you stopped taking baths.”

“How did you know?”

He shrugs. “One of the girls here said something like that before. I don’t think it’s true, but...”

“No chances,” I say.

“I understand.”

“How do you feel about it?” I ask, holding my breath.

He pulls me to his chest and wraps his arms around me. He sits his chin on the top of my head and talks softly, more to the room than me. “Nervous,” he says. “I don’t want it to be like me. I’m not good enough for it. Or you.” I can feel him swallow. “But I want to do the best I can. Not for the baby—that, too—but for you, Suri.” He pulls away from me a little, so he can look down at me and see into my eyes.

“I’ve fallen in love with you.” He squeezes one of my shoulders, and with his other hand, cups my cheek. “I want to ask you—will you stay here with me? Will you go somewhere else with me? We can build a home. I need to live near here at least half time, but the rest of the time, we can live anywhere else.

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