Nine Months to a Fortune by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2024-05-29T21:33:26+00:00

Chapter Seven

“Zane, everything doesn’t have to be pink and lavender.”

It was the third time Sabrina had made the comment, since this was the third store she and Zane had visited since coming to Corpus Christi after making their decision to shop for the nurseries in their respective homes. Chatelaine wasn’t teeming with home improvement stores any more than it was baby boutiques, and they’d been looking for paint and such, too.

Corpus Christi, on the other hand, had a lot of specialty shops and boutiques dedicated specifically to child-related environments ranging from indoor to outdoor, with every theme under the sun. She just wished Zane would stop gravitating toward the same theme over and over again. They’d started in the paint store, where he’d gone straight to the pastels—specifically, the traditionally girly pastels. At the baby furniture store, he’d wandered toward all things white and frilly, specifically a couple of cribs with pink and lavender canopies. Now they were at one of those everything-a-baby-could-need superstores, and he had his gaze trained on a stuffed unicorn with a skimpily clad fairy on its back.

“In fact,” she added, “I’d prefer if we just avoided gender specific colors entirely.” It was the third time she’d told him that, too. This time, though, she backed it up with solid research. “Baby nurseries need a variety of different colors, regardless of whether that baby is a boy or a girl. Colors that are bright and gender neutral and provide a great contrast to each other, since brightness and contrast are what you want when a baby’s vision is developing.”

“Says who?” Zane wanted to know.

“Says all the baby books and blogs I’ve been reading,” she told him.

All three of them. That she’d quickly scanned last night in preparation for this shopping excursion. Not that she mentioned that part to Zane.

“Besides, not every girl loves pink and lavender,” she said. Again. He started to reach for the fairy-riding unicorn. “And not all of them love unicorns and fairies.”

He pulled his hand back. Then he hooked both hands on his hips in challenge. “Yeah, well, after raising four boys, you’ll forgive me if I’m a little excited about having some girls in the family,” he told her. “Maybe I want to go a little overboard with the girly stuff.”

Okay, she could see that. But having worked for too long in a male-dominated world—and having never exactly been a girly-girl herself—Sabrina still balked at introducing someone else’s ideas of what they specified as girl-or boy-centered items. Sheesh. Every store they’d visited had actually had departments devoted to gender.

“Let’s just stick to the basics until we know what’s going to spark Peach’s and Plum’s interests,” she said. “Bright, contrasting colors. And animals. Kids of all kinds love animals.”

In spite of their little disagreement, Zane smiled. “You really want that Noah’s ark quilt we saw when we came in, don’t you?”

Okay, yeah, she did. It was the cutest thing she’d ever seen. But that wasn’t why she’d brought up animals. She just appreciated excellent craftsmanship when she saw it, that was all.

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