Trapped as My Girlfriend by Lisa Change

Author:Lisa Change [Change, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

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From Man to Mommy

They’d been married for less than a year when Adam began pestering Katie to have kids.

“C’mon…” he moaned, following Katie round the kitchen as she prepared their dinner, “I don’t wanna wait. I’m getting too old already!”

They’d met just after Katie finished university, when she was only 22. By that point, Adam had already been a working grown-up for ten long years.

Now, he was 35 and didn’t like his younger wife to forget about it.

“I always said I’d have kids by 36. That was a deal-breaker. I told you when we started going out…”

“I know. I know you did.” Katie sighed, trying to make sure she didn’t overcook either the sauce or the pasta while Adam kept going on. Why had she chosen to make a ragu tonight, of all things?

“But I’m not ready, y’know?” She said as she took the pan off the heat. “I still want to see the world. Do some travelling. Remember I told you I wanted to live in Asia before we had kids? Where’s our pad in Bangkok, huh?”

“That’s different,” Adam rolled his eyes. “We can live in Asia whenever…”

“With kids? Do you have any idea how much English-language schools cost out there?”

“Well, whatever. I’ve been abroad already. Trust me. It’s not worth it.”

Katie had to bite down on her tongue. This always came up when the conversation turned to her travel plans.

Three months. He spends three freakin’ months in Prague and he thinks he’s Rick Steves…

“It’s just something I’ve always wanted to do, OK? Even if it’s just for a year. My publishing house has a vacancy coming up in their Thai office. Maybe we could do that? Then we can come back, talk about having kids…”

“A year?!” Adam’s eyes went wide. “I’ll be 36… even if I knock you up the minute we step off the plane, I’ll be 37 before you give birth…”

He folded his arms, fixed his wife with a unyielding stare.

“Sorry. We can’t do that. I’d rather get divorced than wait that long.”

He frowned at the stove.

“The ragu’s burning.”

Fuck!

Katie span round, but it was too late.

She’d been so absorbed in her argument that she’d turned the pan up, to full, instead of down. And now their dinner was all black and nasty.

Behind her, Adam gently shook his head.

“You gotta be careful, babe,” he said, sagely, “if you burn the dinner talking to me, what are you gonna be like when we have kids, huh?”

It took all of Katie’s self-control not to pour the ruined ragu over her husband’s big, dumb head.

*

That night, Katie sat up on her iPad, flicking through a message board as Adam lay snoring beside her.

She’d had an awful evening. After the mess with the ragu, she’d shouted something at Adam about this being the last time she wanted to hear about having fucking kids.

At that, Adam had taken her in his arms, sternly but gently.

“You don’t mean that,” he’d said, firmly. “You want kids as much as I do. You just need… time to think is all.

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