Tame Your Heart: A Small Town Romance (Bounty Bay Book 6) by Tracey Alvarez

Author:Tracey Alvarez [Alvarez, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Icon Publishing
Published: 2019-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“What’re you smiling about? Didn’t you hear what I said? I’m pregnant.” And sitting butt naked on her bathroom floor after puking her guts out hadn’t been the way Tui envisioned telling him.

No, she’d planned a nice dinner—which she’d burned to a crisp—and thought they’d have an awkward but adult conversation about her being knocked up over coffee and cake. Then he’d gone and pulled the rug out from beneath her with his honesty about him and his ex-wife losing a baby, and she just couldn’t.

“I heard you,” the man seated next to her said mildly. “What kind of reaction were you expecting? A panicked stampede out of your front door?”

“Something like that,” she muttered, drawing her knees up to her chin and wrapping her arms around them.

“You don’t know me very well, then.”

“I don’t know you at all.” She thunked her head back against the wall with a groan.

“You know I like it when you lick my—”

She elbowed him before he could finish his sexy-toned description of how much she liked licking his—well, his everything. “Shut up. How the hell can you joke around at a time like this?”

“When we’re sitting in our birthday suits on a cold floor?”

She rolled her head toward him and looked down her nose. “You, at least, have got boxer shorts on to protect your dignity.”

“Your dignity’s fine,” he said. “You look beautiful.”

“You’re full of it. And for God’s sake, stop smiling at me like that.”

“Like what? Like I’m happy to hear you’re carrying my baby?”

“You’re happy? How can you be happy? We barely know each other, our families hate each other, we’re not in a relationship, I’m thirty-one fricking years old and—” She whooped in a breath, huffed it out, and couldn’t seem to catch it again.

“Guessing you’re not over the moon about this.”

“You think?”

They sat in silence for a few moments.

“I wouldn’t say I’m happy,” he said. “But I’m not unhappy. I just need a little time to process this, to work out a plan.”

“A plan? How can you plan after an accident has happened?” She dropped her head into her cupped palms. “If you make a list or draw a bloody flowchart, I’m going to scream.”

She heard a rustle as he shifted on the floor and the soft weight of his hand stroked down her arm, then rested on her head. “I don’t know what the right thing is to say in this situation. I own half the responsibility for this pregnancy, but it’s your right to tell me to back off and let you decide what you want to do.”

“I don’t know what I want to do.” She sat up and faced him. “But I’m old-fashioned enough to believe the father should have a say. As long as you understand the final decision is mine to make.”

“Yeah, of course.”

She licked parched lips and winced at the sour taste coating them. Her bare butt was stuck to the floorboards. Ugh. “Maybe we can talk about this more when we’re fully clothed.

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