Page 50 of Lawyer's Secret Omega

I was sad that we wouldn't be able to do our little charade at work anymore, but I was relieved and happy because I could bring my husband into my office without having to sneak around. Of course, people would probably be more aware of any noises now that they knew we were together. I was still hell-bent on getting Ryan bent over my desk, but with his belly getting bigger all the time, I think my window of opportunity had passed.

"How many people do you think will show up?" I shrugged my shoulders. Ryan had passed out invitations to the baby shower two weeks ago.

I was wondering when a meeting with the other partners would get arranged when they found out I was the father of Ryan's child and we were married. I was pretty sure there were going to be some tense questions over whether this relationship started before Ryan was part of my paralegal team or after. At this point, did it really matter? He was knocked up and we were married- not much you could do about that.

Ryan felt bad about not telling his friends at the firm the truth about why the baby shower was being held in our penthouse. Nobody knew I lived here except Eric and Meredith. When asked, Ryan shrugged it off, saying he knew the guy that lived there. You bet he did.

Ryan walked by, carrying a stack of cloth napkins to set on the dining room table. I took that opportunity to smack him on the ass. He kept walking while throwing a smirk over his shoulder. My mom yelled at me for smacking my pregnant husband on the ass. "Mom, we're married. Besides, you know how babies are made." I'll admit it was funny when my mom got all flustered and had to leave to go to the bathroom to "powder her nose".

Ryan had managed to get my mom to settle on a somewhat normal baby shower. There would be a catered buffet along with cake, cookies, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages. No string quartet, thank God, but the kind of music Ryan and I liked would be playing over speakers. This was an informal baby shower- slash- wedding announcement. There was no need to go country club.

There was no room to hide a big wedding cake in my fridge so we nixed that idea, until Eric thought of getting it delivered during the partyWe were going to have the baby shower for about forty five minutes and then a three-tiered wedding cake was going to show up. I couldn't wait to see the looks on everybody's faces when they figured it out.

A surprisingly large number of people showed up to the shower. It looked like everybody from the firm showed up- Ryan's friends, my friends, Steve, the FBI agent that saved our asses during Ryan's rescue.

I did wonder what the hell was going on with Eric and Lance. They were on different sides of the room, throwing little glances at each other. Something must've happened because neither one of them looked as upbeat as they normally were. Though Eric denied dating Lance, I still swear something was going on there.

I stayed back around the periphery of the annoying baby shower games and the gifts. When forty minutes had passed I started hanging out near the elevator. When that elevator door opened and the cake company rolled out the gigantic wedding cake, I knew it was time for the fun to begin. Well, it would be fun for about two seconds before everybody started glaring at me for taking advantage of a subordinate.

"Oh Ryan, I think some more dessert just arrived." Ryan blushed and stood up from his chair in the living room. I tried to stay in character, but I just couldn't. I had a gigantic smile on my face. You might even say it was a cocky smile. The cake was wheeled into the dining room as people stood up and the murmuring got louder.

Ryan stood next to me, but we didn't hold hands, as I wanted to keep this charade going for as long as possible. "I'm glad everybody came for my baby shower. I really appreciate it. I know there's something that you've probably all been dying to know. Who's the father of my baby?" Ryan moved towards me, grabbed my hand and smiled even bigger.

Meredith and Eric already knew, and so did Lance and Steve, but I wished I had a camera to record everybody else's faces. It was priceless. Looks of shock and horror, with eyes bouncing from Ryan to me, mingled in with some looks of disgust. I started laughing. "Stop it. You're not making this easy on me." Ryan hissed at me but I couldn't stop.

"As you can see, my idiot husband thinks this is hysterical."

And there was the second part of the announcement. The gasps I heard were well worth it. I laughed even harder. Yeah, I was going to get my ass chewed by Ryan but this was just priceless.

I finally calmed down enough to speak. "I'm sorry, but it was pretty funny seeing your faces. Yes, we really are married. We went to Vegas. There'll be a wedding reception so don't worry, you'll get to drink and dance at my expense. And no, Ryan won't be working in my section after the baby is born. He'll be moving to another section at work."

Finally the looks settled into more normal expressions, and even happiness. "I'm glad you finally made an honest man out of him, you old lech!" That was Steve, hopefully breaking the ice so that other people would offer congratulations or at least saying something.

"I'm happy you found a love match at our firm. You sure kept it quiet." That was perfect because then everybody started talking about how they had no idea or they totally knew we were having a relationship. I gave Ryan a quick kiss and then dragged him over to the cake. We cut the first piece together, then I let my mom and the cake company cut the rest.

There was one person that left the baby shower wedding announcement a little early. Not long after we announced our marriage, Luke left. I didn't think Ryan noticed as he was too busy talking to the other paralegals. I snickered and ate my wedding cake.

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