You Were Meant For Me by Kait Nolan

Author:Kait Nolan [Nolan, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kait Nolan

Chapter 10

The house was too quiet when Mitch got home. Tess’s car was in the garage, so unless she’d gone off with somebody else, she had to be here. Maybe she was napping. She’d been awfully tired since that stomach flu. Not that she’d appreciated it when he suggested she was working too hard and ought to take it easy. Tonight he’d opted for sneakier tactics to achieve the same end. He was cooking dinner. It wouldn’t be on par with the Italian feast she’d made or even the everyday gourmet fare she tended toward, but by damn, he could grill. After stowing the groceries he’d picked up on the way home, he went to search her out.

Moving into the dark living room, he switched on a light, pulling up short when he spotted her curled in a chair, a mug in her hands. “Hey.” He knew before the word even fell from his lips that something was very wrong. Her expression was too set, too serious.

“Hi.” She didn’t smile.

Mitch searched her face. Had she been crying? “Baby, what’s wrong? Is there a snag with the project? Did you have a fight with your dad? Has somebody died?”

She shook her head. “Would you please sit down?” The fingers around her mug were white.

Dread curled through his gut as he moved toward her. “Why do I feel like I should do that with a glass of bourbon?”

“You may want some before this is over.”

That didn’t bode well. But he sat without it, taking the end of the sofa nearest her and hating that he couldn’t easily touch her and try to comfort. Or maybe he wanted some comfort for himself.

Tess took a measured breath, staring into the mug. “I’ve been trying to think how to tell you this for days.”

She’s breaking up with me. The sick certainty of it hit him like a sucker punch. He couldn’t imagine any other reason she’d look so grave and uncomfortable. Their days together, both here and in Scotland, spun through his head in a jumbled loop. His mind tried to sift through, to find a reason, so suss out some argument he could use to combat what was coming. But all he saw were the best days of his life. If she didn’t feel the same, how could he change her mind?

She lifted her gaze to his, steeling herself. “There’s no good way to ease into this, so I’m just going to rip the Band-aid off.”

Their living together was too much, too soon. That had to be it. She’d decided she couldn’t handle this. Mitch braced himself for the blow, wondering if the knowing it was coming would lessen the inevitable pain or make it worse.

“I’m pregnant.”

Her words stopped the montage flying through his brain on fast forward. “What?”

“I haven’t had the stomach flu or jet lag or food poisoning. I am, impossibly, improbably, pregnant.”

They weren’t breaking up. Relief came hard and fast, forcing his breath out on a wheeze. If he hadn’t already been sitting, his legs would’ve gone right out from under him.

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