Inked Craving by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan [Ryan, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carrie Ann Ryan

Chapter Twelve

Paige

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Fear cascaded down my spine, and I gripped Lee’s hand. He looked over at me before he returned his gaze to the road, going the exact speed limit.

I breathed through the pain, grimaced, and couldn’t help but smile at him. “You’re not even going to go five over, are you?” I asked with a laugh.

We stopped at a traffic light, and he raised his brows at me. “Of course, not. I’ve seen those movies. They get pulled over, and then they have to explain to the cop that you’re having a baby. And then either you have the baby right then and there—and I’m not in the mood to deliver a baby in a car. Or we go speeding at seventy miles an hour around curves following the cop as he blares his lights. The traffic here is insane, Paige Montgomery. We are not risking that.”

I looked over at him then, my heart doing that little shuddering thing. It was so hard to think when he was so fucking perfect.

“You’re panicking.” My stomach felt like it twisted, and I did my best to remember my breathing from our classes. Annabelle had been so soothing during all of them. Had rubbed my back. Had explained to me how her birth had gone. She had started with an epidural, but it had only lasted for part of the birth. So, she’d been able to feel nearly everything both times, and my brain shorted out just thinking about it.

“Of course, I’m freaking out. You’re giving birth. It’s a big thing.”

I ignored that little clutch in my heart and squeezed his hand tightly. He was driving one-handed and doing well with it. I needed his touch, though, and I was greedy for it. In the middle of labor was the one time I would allow myself to be needy.

It was a decent excuse anyway.

“And you called your family?”

I smiled. “Yes, the only problem is they’re in Denver.”

Lee practically swerved off the road, and I winced. “Why are they in Denver? You’re near your due date. They should know to be here.”

I sighed, rubbing my belly as I did some slow breathing through a contraction. The contractions were coming closer and closer together, and I didn’t want to think too hard about that. I couldn’t help but remember the pain, the bleeding that had happened when we’d had that scare at the beginning of the pregnancy. Speaking with Sierra and Austin and even Leif had helped right after everything happened, but I still woke up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and scared. I’d only texted Lee once, and that had been after the first time. He had come over and held me. I hadn’t texted him after that.

It wouldn’t be fair to either of us. But he was so caring, so wonderful. He spoke to the baby as much as I did, and I had no idea what we would do once I held my baby for the first time.

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