Three to Get Ready by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren [Warren, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dangerous Press

13

EVA

Even filling out the forms at the doctor’s office feels surprisingly emotional.

Age? 33.

Is this your first pregnancy? Yes.

Any family history of miscarriages, low birth weight, etc? My mother had three miscarriages.

Apparently, miscarriages are common. So common that many women don’t know they’ve had one. It seems like a small miracle that I’m pregnant at all, given that.

I work my way through the pages, feeling faintly ill. Morning sickness, probably. There’s a packet of Club crackers in my purse now. I slip one out and eat it, but the sensation doesn’t go away.

I’m nervous. That’s what this is.

I’m sure of the baby. I want the baby. But the form seems like a catalog of all the ways that this might not be ideal. I know the doctors just want as much information as possible. I also know that a perfectly normal pregnancy can still end in an urgent C-section, like it did for Haley.

I take the clipboard with the completed forms back to the reception desk. I’m just sinking into my seat when the outer door opens, letting in a breath of warm air.

It’s not another woman here for an appointment.

It’s Finn.

He’s dressed in a dark suit that’s custom tailored to his muscles. My body flushes at the sight of him. A suit and tie is nothing special. It’s what he would wear any day at the office.

Except he’s not at the office.

He takes the seat next to me. The flush turns hot and indignant and…relieved.

Finn nods at me. “Morelli.”

“Morelli? Oh my God. How did you know I was here?”

Finn pats my hand as if I have gone slightly ’round the bend. “I have spies all throughout this city.”

It’s impossible to express how badly I want to hold his hand, but I do not. I fold mine in my lap, instead. I’m self contained. No man is an island, but this woman? She is. “That’s stalkerish.”

“Well, you didn’t marry me, so this is how it has to be.” He flashes me a smile. I’m interested. I can almost hear his voice the way it was in the poker club. Hot. Smooth. Neither of us was forcing anything. “I’m not walking away.”

“Listen, I was going to tell you the results.”

“Now you don’t have to, because I’m here.” I move to turn away, to collect myself, but Finn puts a hand on my arm. “We haven’t had a chance to talk about what happened.”

“Nothing happened.”

“I told your entire family that you’re pregnant, and the baby is mine.”

“They’d have found out sooner or later.” Would they have freaked out quite so much? Probably not. But what’s done is done. The cat is, as they say, out of the bag. “Why are you here?”

A hint of his usual charming grin lifts the corner of his mouth, then disappears. “Do you think I only show up for your brother’s baby? Not yours? Not ours?”

“That was different. That was an emergency. And I did appreciate having you there.” My heart twists. “But this is—this is just confirmation about a baby you don’t want.

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