Have My Baby (Crescent Cove 1)

“The same way you wanted him.”

“Yeah.”

“But he did. Oh Ally, that’s so awesome.” She stroked my arm, but didn’t try to get me to turn around. Under her relentlessness was a heart of pure platinum. “Did he take a long lunch break or something and bring you back to his house? Handy living so close.”

Heat blasted my face. “Um, no.”

“Don’t tell me he went for a room at the Inn again. Is he just trying to make tongues wag?”

“Not that either.” I cleared my throat. “We did it in his office.”

“You did it in his office?” she screeched and I winced and covered my face with my hands.

If there was anyone left in town who didn’t know that Seth and I were slapping skin, there wouldn’t be after this conversation.

“Yes. Please keep your voice down.”

“Like where, on the floor?”

I shook my head.

“Against the wall?” Sage lowered her voice about a quarter of a decibel. “On the—on the desk?”

The sheer scandalization in her tone made me laugh. “It’s not that shocking. People have office sex all the time. There’s even a category on porn sites.”

“There is? And why are you going on porn sites? Never mind. Don’t want to know. Anyway, on the desk. Really.” She whistled. “Wow.”

I cleared my throat again. “Yeah, it was fairly wow. I didn’t expect that when I went there, by the way. I just came over to tell him all systems were a go, and he surprised the hell out of me by—”

“You said yes? Oh my God.” Sage let out an excited peal of laughter and darted in front of me before pulling my hands off my shoulders to grip them. “So you could be pregnant, like right now? This very instant? Oh God, I need to prepare. We’ll need to have a shower. Are you planning on finding out the sex? We can go neutral themed for the party.”

“Sage.” I huffed out a laugh. “The first time, he used a condom.”

“But this time he didn’t, right?” Sage demanded. “So you could be with child right now.”

11

Ally

I swear to God, hearts swam out of my best friend’s eyes and aimed for the ceiling. Imagining exactly that only made me laugh harder.

“With child? Really? What are you, a nun?” I wiped my eyes and found Sage’s smile had vanished, along with her bubbly excitement.

“Yeah, guess I kind of am.” She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “I should get back to work. I didn’t let Jean know I was taking a break.”

My stomach clenched and I grabbed her arm. “Wait. That didn’t come out right. It wasn’t a virginity dig. Hello, I’m barely not one myself anymore.”

“There’s no barely not a virgin. Either you’ve ma—fucked or you haven’t. And you have. Twice.”

“Yeah.” I wanted to smile, and it so wasn’t the time. “The nun comment wasn’t referring to that, though. I meant you make it sound so spiritual. So holy. Sometimes people just lean over a desk and get plowed into from behind.”

She forgot to be mad at me long enough for her eyes to go wide. “That sounds hot.”

“It was. Extremely.”

“And he didn’t use a condom this time.”

“No.” Since Sage’s imminent flight risk had seemed to have passed, I released her to rub my throat. I was having Seth coming flashbacks, and the heat between my legs was swiftly outpacing the flush in my cheeks. “He did not.”