Seducing the Bridesmaid

“I’m glad you didn’t.” He pulled her into his arms. “Darlin’, we’ve got to know. Together.”

She studied his face, trying to figure out which way he was falling on this whole thing. He seemed…happy? Hope unfolded in her chest, threatening to consume her completely. She’d always wanted kids, and having those kids with Brock had become part of the dream the longer they’d been together. But kids were supposed to be planned out. There were so many things to take care of, doctors to interview, plans to make.

Nowhere in there was she supposed to get knocked up accidentally.

“Okay.” She took the test from him and walked to the bathroom. When she started to close the door, he was there. “No way.”

“I’m being supportive.”

“Go be supportive in the living room. I don’t need the added stress of you watching me pee.”

He grinned, the expression doing more to steady her than anything else. “I love you.”

Would she ever be able to hear him say those words without her heart speeding up? Regan hoped not. She loved that he affected her so deeply. The hope in her chest got stronger. “I love you, too.”

Then she closed the door in his face.

It didn’t take long to take the test, though peeing on a stick required a hell of a lot more coordination that she would have guessed. She recapped it, washed her hands, and opened the door.

Brock hadn’t moved an inch. “Three minutes?”

“A man reading the instructions? Look at you, making history.” She went into his arms and rested her forehead on his chest. “I’m scared.”

“Don’t be.” He stroked her hair. “I hope it’s a little girl who looks like you and spends all our money on sparkly pink shoes.”

Her laugh caught in her throat. Had she really had doubts about how he’d react? He was Brock. He loved her, and he’d never once wavered since he moved up here. Of course he wouldn’t waver now. “You’re not mad?”

“Darlin’, it takes two to make a baby.”

“We don’t know that there’s a baby.”

“Don’t we?” He hugged her tighter. “It’s okay to be scared. I think we’d be idiots not to be. Raising a kid is no joke. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s you and me, together. We make a hell of a team.” She could hear the smile in his voice. “Besides, a kid with half of each of us? She’ll be the coolest kid that there ever was.”

“Why are you so set on a girl?”

“I’d be happy with either. But I grew up in a family of boys. It’d be wonderful to raise a little girl.”

Famous last words. “Until puberty.”

Brock laughed and stepped back. “It’s time.” He stopped in the bathroom door, his smile melting away. “Unless you don’t want kids? Shit, Regan, I’m sorry. I didn’t even stop to think about what you might want.”

He’d do it, too. If she said she didn’t want a baby right now, he’d stand by her decision, no matter how much he wanted one. Just when she thought she couldn’t love this man any more, it hit her hard enough that she actually staggered. Instantly, he was there, holding her up, concern written across his face. She patted his shoulder. “I’m okay.”

She straightened and headed into the bathroom. There was no decision to make—if she was pregnant with Brock’s baby, she’d move heaven and earth to keep their child safe. Now they just needed to know if they were getting riled up over nothing.

But when she got to the counter, she couldn’t make herself pick it up. “You look. I can’t.”

He lifted her, studying the little window. When he looked at her, a big, stupid grin spread across his face. “Plus sign.”

She was pregnant. Regan touched her stomach, marveling at how her world had just turned on its head, but her body hadn’t changed in the slightest. “We’re having a baby.” She looked up, realizing that he had no idea what had been going through her mind. “If it’s a girl, don’t you think for a moment that I’m going to let you spoil her rotten and turn her into a little princess. She’ll be a monster if we don’t have some ground rules.”

He let out a whoop and spun her around the tiny bathroom. “I can’t promise you a damn thing, but I reckon a little spoiling never hurt anyone.”

She laughed. “With our luck, it’s going to be a boy who will be just as much of a hell-raiser as you and your friends were growing up.”

“Why stop there? Maybe it’s both.”

Both? She gave him a mock glare. “We are not having twins.”

Oh God, what if they were having twins? No. No way. The universe was not that much of an asshole…

Was it?

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Acknowledgments

To God, for all the things, big and little.

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