Falling for My Dirty Uncle

Oh, fuck!

Why didn’t I think of this before?

It’s so fucking obvious!

“Babe, I fucking got it. We can fight him!” She looks at me with a pale smile, and that isn’t exactly the reaction I was expecting. I was looking for some enthusiasm, even some excitement, but all she manages to present me with is a weak smile. What’s going on here? “Babe, what is it? We can end him fucking once and for all.”

Then, she says something that just hits me out of nowhere. “Austin… Why don’t we just leave?” she whispers, lowering her voice so much that I can barely hear her words.

“Leave?” I ask, shocked.

“Yeah. Somewhere else… Somewhere far away from here,” she says to me. “Away from all of this. I… I don’t know what might happen if we go up against Lester. It’s too dangerous for you, for me and for…” She stops, hesitating, and runs her tongue between her lips. “Austin, there’s something I need to tell you.”

“What?”

She pauses. Takes a deep breath.

I can’t wait any fucking longer.

I need to tell her.

“I love you, Destiny Renee,” I tell her.

“I’m pregnant, Austin” she says, and I don’t know if she just replied or what.

Wait.

What?

I didn’t see that fucking coming. “What did you just say?” I ask her in disbelief.

“Never mind me,” she says to me. “What did you just say?”

My mouth hangs open as I try to understand the ramifications of what she just told me. Pregnant? As in p-r-e-g-n-a-n-t? I must have heard wrong.

“Austin,” she says again. “I love you too.”

“Pregnant?” I ask.

She nods. “Do you still love me after I told you?”

Is she fucking joking?

No, I didn’t hear wrong. She’s pregnant. Pregnant! I jump on top of the bed and hug her so tightly she has to push me away from her.

“I don’t even know what to say.” I look at her with a dumb smile, feeling so fucking happy.

I wasn’t this happy when I became a millionaire for the first time, and I wasn’t this happy when I opened Python.

This is a different kind of happiness. A fucking baby?

I mean…a baby?

Can you fucking imagine it? I’ll tell you something, with Destiny’s genes and my DNA, it’s going to be one badass baby. Smart, beautiful and brave. My child.

“I was afraid of what your reaction would be,” she confesses, her weak smile turning into a genuine one. There’s a glint in her eyes, and I realize that my reaction was everything she needed.

I realize something.