Page 23 of Last Minute Fiancé

August looked between Luca and I, brows furrowing, before he shook his head. “You know what, I don’t want to know. Just, whatever it is, know that we’re here.”

“We’re fine,” Luca growled before he held out his hand. “Come on. Let’s go inside. It’s going to rain soon.”

I looked up at the gray clouds, the dreariness settling in to match our moods, and nodded.

“You’re right. Let’s go.”

Without thinking I put my hand in his and he pulled me towards the front door. I didn’t miss August’s curious look, though I ignored it. There wasn’t time for that. There wasn’t time for anything at this point.

Everything was about to change, monumentally. Or perhaps it already had changed and I was just trying to catch up.

“You’re here!” Devney said as she threw her hands up. She wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly.

“I’m so glad that you’re here. Come on inside. It’s just the six of us tonight. I hope that’s okay. Greer and her men are off on a trip.”

I still held Luca’s hand, and I hadn’t even realized I was, but as Luca and I were always close like this nobody really noticed, other than August. Probably because I was acting weird, not August. After all, Luca and I were constantly touching each other, near each other. Though we were just friends. We didn’t even have benefits except for that one night, and now we had a very huge result from that benefit. Not that I was going to dwell on that tonight because we had other things to talk about first.

I suppose fake marriages came before real babies, although I didn’t really want that bumper sticker on my SUV.

My SUV that would soon need a car seat and a baby carrier and I would need a bag to hold all the baby things. How would I make my office into a nursery, or should I move? Or would Luca want us to move in with him, or maybe just the baby with him and he would want full custody? No, that wasn’t Luca. And he was also not the kind of guy to just run away.

We would be forever bound, and not just from our friendship.

Everything was changing and I couldn’t keep up.

“Addison?” Devney asked, worry in her tone.

I quickly pushed thoughts of my own impending reality away and smiled at Devney. “Sorry. Long day.”

“At work,” August said, disbelief obvious in his tone.

Well, I didn’t believe myself either, but I didn’t need him to press so hard. Mostly because I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing in this moment.

Devney frowned between the three of us before gesturing towards the dining room.

“Come on, I’ll pour you a glass of wine.”

I bit my lip, because I wasn’t ready to talk about the baby. I couldn’t even talk about it with myself, let alone anyone else. But it was Luca who took care of it.

“She’s driving me home tonight because she lost the coin toss, so I get the wine.”

He smiled then, and Devney rolled her eyes.

“You know, that is probably a good thing. Don’t you have an early day at the job tomorrow?”

I nearly tripped over my feet and frowned. “What?”

“Unless you have a set day off the next day where you can recover from a single glass of wine, let alone how much you had at my birthday, you don’t usually drink much at these things anyway. Because you’re always working. I mean, I love that you’re so great at your job, but you work more hours than any of us do, and that’s saying something.”

“Considering that many of us own our own businesses, pretty much,” Heath said as he came forward, two glasses in his hands. He handed Luca a glass of red wine, and me a sparkling water.

“If you want something else just let me know. But I know you like this stuff.”

I smiled, actually grateful for the bubbles to settle my stomach. And it wasn’t just nerves this time. “Thank you,” I said before I took a deep sip, letting the bubbles settle me.

Luca met my gaze as he sipped his wine, and I ignored the way his throat worked.

Why was I noticing Luca Cassidy and the way his throat worked as he swallowed?

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