Page 50 of Inked Devotion

“Oh my God,” Paige exclaimed, her hands over her mouth.

“So, I was going to feed you cake first,” Brenna said with a laugh, and I sat down completely on the floor, Brenna in my lap as I helped wipe her mouth after she had thrown up. I reached over, flushed the toilet, lowered the lid, and looked at my family.

“I guess there’s a few things we need to tell you,” I said, and my mother let out a little squeal.

“Are you serious?” Archer asked.

I winced, feeling terrible. “Shit. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to steal your thunder.”

“No thunder stolen at all,” Archer added, and Marc nodded.

Marc opened his mouth then shook his head. “This family sure does like to do things big.”

“Go big or go home, apparently,” Colton said, meeting the other man’s gaze.

“How did this…? What is this…? What the hell is going on?” Annabelle asked, her mouth dropping.

Brenna looked at me then let out a sigh. “There’s a lot we need to tell you, but Benjamin and I are having a baby.”

Everyone started talking at once, and I held up my hands, quieting them.

“We will answer your questions, but maybe not when we’re sitting on the floor, and we need to get cleaned up.”

“A baby,” my dad whispered. “You’re having a baby.”

“Looks like,” Brenna said with a laugh. “Seriously, we’ll explain everything that we know. Just give us a minute.”

They all looked at each other before they scrambled away, and I knew that dinner was probably going to be on hold, and the interrogation would soon begin.

“Do you want to make a break for it?” Brenna asked, and I laughed.

“I think they’d find us.”

“It’s true. You guys sometimes suck like that.”

“Once a Montgomery,” I muttered, and Brenna winced.

“Things are complicated.”

“Just a little bit.”

“We can’t change anything too much. You know? We can’t make things more complicated than they already are.” I didn’t understand what she meant until I looked down exactly where she was sitting and the fact that she kept rubbing against a certain part of my anatomy.

I winced. “Sorry.”

“No. It’s fine. I just, this wasn’t exactly how I wanted tonight to go.”

“It’s the way it’s gone, so we’ll figure it out.”

“Maybe. Or maybe it will just make things worse.”

“That’s the spirit,” I said as I kissed the top of her head, and she sighed.

“Let the interrogation begin,” she muttered.

“Well, the good news is we can always shift the focus to Archer and Marc.”

“We ruined it, didn’t we?”

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