Baby For The Off Limits Single Daddy: A Stuck Together Best Friend's Brother Romance (The Hawthorns) by Callie Stevens

Author:Callie Stevens [Stevens, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

“Here, let me help you with that,” I say to Rye, trying to cut her off from the oven.

“June, relax. You’ve helped with literally everything already. I can take something out of the oven,” Rye replies, waving me off.

I step back and let her pull a casserole dish of asparagus out of the oven. It feels like she’s gotten so big since the last time I saw her. It’s only been a few weeks, but she looks like she could pop at any minute, even though she has a month left of her pregnancy.

“You know what you can do for me? You can grab a trivet and go put it on the dining room table.”

“Got it. Which cabinet?”

Rye looks around the kitchen at all the cabinets. “God, I don’t know. This place is still like a puzzle to me.”

“I’ll just open them all until I find them.”

“But don’t leave them open,” Rye teases with a spoon. “Ash and the boys have this habit of leaving all the cabinets open. The last time they did that, I burst into tears.”

“Rye…”

“Oh, don’t pity me,” she snorts. “I’m just…”

“Pregnant.”

“Very,” she replies, putting her hand on her belly. “And very nearly ready to not be.”

I smile. “I’ll find it, don’t worry.” I start to shuffle through the cabinets looking for a trivet. Rye and I have become fast friends ever since she started coming to Sunday dinners last October. We bonded a lot, especially over Piper, who she was making a huge effort to get to know in preparation for impending motherhood.

Sometimes, though, I get a sinking feeling while looking at her. She’s only a few years older than me, but she already seems to have her life sorted. Of course, I know it wasn’t that simple. I only heard bits and pieces from Keifer about the drama that was Ash and Rye getting together. But she’s stepped into her role as (the very young) matriarch of the Hawthorn family with ease and grace. She’s married, having a baby, already planning out her flower business that’s set to open in a year. Regardless of how it came to be, Rye has her shit together now.

I told her that once as I lamented being a directionless twenty-something and she just laughed. “You have no idea how fast things can change, June.”

I try to remember that. But all that’s changed so far is I lost my job and fucked my best friend’s brother. Both are things that probably would have been better not happening.

“Dad sent me in to say ‘hi’,” Jarred’s voice permeates the room.

The hair on the back of my neck stands up. I don’t turn from the cabinet I’m searching.

“Would you not have said ‘hi’ if your dad hadn’t told you to?” Rye asks teasingly.

“I didn’t want to get in your way!”

“Is that a comment about me being pregnant? I resent that if it is.”

I slowly turn around and watch Jarred and Rye hug lovingly. I wonder how Jarred feels that his dad’s new wife is exactly his age.

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