Fate (A Curvy Girl Romance) by L. Moone

Author:L. Moone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: eXplicitTales
Published: 2022-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

* Bob *

I’m lost in thought. So much so, I barely see the spreadsheet on the laptop screen in front of me anymore. Just when I’m about ready to snap myself out of it, a knock on the door does it for me.

“Come on in,” I respond, as if on autopilot.

The door opens, and I see Alexis waiting there. Her presence startles me, because of course she was all I’d just been thinking about. She’s all I ever think about anymore.

At least she isn’t avoiding me today like she has been since last month. That’s a good start. Maybe we can finally talk. An actual conversation. Not the few attempts of brushing what’s happened between us under the carpet. There’s too much we’ve left unsaid. I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t man up and honestly tell her how I feel before it’s too late.

“I need to—”

“We need to talk.”

I don’t know who said what first. And now we’re both staring at each other awkwardly. Great start.

“You go first,” she says.

I shake my head. “No, I’m sorry, I interrupted you.”

For a moment, a glimpse of something unfamiliar flits across her face. A micro expression I’ve never seen on her before. Fear? This is new.

More than an attempt to be chivalrous, that’s what made me step back and let her speak first. That means whatever she wants to tell me is serious. Not that my thing isn’t, but still. My protective instinct kicked in hard and fast.

“Okay…” she says. But it’s not okay. I can see it in her eyes, as much as the rest of her body. Something’s very wrong.

“You can tell me anything,” I try to reassure her. But she doesn’t seem to hear it. And I don’t feel particularly reassured either.

“I’m…” She sighs and curses under her breath. “Bob, I’m pregnant.”

For a moment, I’m stunned. It’s all due to the dissonance I feel. Between how I should be reacting because of the state she’s in and how I really feel about this news.

I’m… I’m… happy?

No, that doesn’t make any sense. Fuck, she certainly isn’t. She doesn’t look happy about this at all, obviously. Why would she be? She’s been trying her best to avoid me, and now she’s got a permanent reminder of what happened growing inside of her. That must be terrible.

“But…” I stammer.

“Yeah, the condom. I don’t know what the fuck happened either,” she complains.

I can only shake my head in response to that, because that’s really not what I was trying to say. But I’m getting ahead of myself. If she wasn’t planning on having the baby, she didn’t need to tell me at all, right? Especially since she’s made it pretty clear she’s unhappy about how things have been between us since… Then again, I can’t just make assumptions like that. This is too big a deal to jump to conclusions.

“What now?” I finally ask.

She sighs. “I can’t get rid of it, so please don’t ask me to.”

“I would never!”

She looks up at me, and I think I see a glimpse of the old Alexis I used to be so familiar with.

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