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I was. Now that I’d talk to Alex some, I was more comfortable even if I had looked like an idiot when we got here.

“Oh, I forgot to ask. Is anyone else coming to stay this weekend?”

“Jenner and Abbi are coming tomorrow morning, but that’s it. I mean Colton and Anna will be here, but they’re at their house. Why?” Alex asked and then looked at me.

All normal, down to Earth people, I chanted in my head. I could hang with them for a weekend. And I knew being Leo’s wife, I’d be put in these situations over the years. The thought of being with Leo sent more tingly feelings through my body.

13

Everly

Walking out of the bathroom,I wrung my hands together. “It says we have to wait three minutes.”

“Come here, sweet girl.” Leo patted his lap. I went willingly and Leo nuzzled into my neck as he held me close. “I want you to know no matter if you’re pregnant or not, I love you.”

My body jerked at his confession. Pulling away, I looked into his blue eyes swirling with emotion. “You love me?”

“I do, but I wanted to wait because I thought it was too soon to tell you. I knew after you told me you might be pregnant, I had to tell you before you knew the results.”

My grip on his shoulders tightened as I confessed. “Since the realization hit me that I might be pregnant, all I could think about was how now, after I’d fallen so deeply for you, you were going to file for divorce.”

“You’re going to have to do a lot more than get pregnant with my child for me to cut you out of my life.”

“You’ve made me the happiest person in the world right now. It’s like my birthday and Christmas rolled into one.”

“Good. I want to make you happy now and forevermore. Do you want me to come with you to look at the test?”

“I can do it.” Cupping his cheeks, I dipped down and kissed him. It was slow and sweet, just what the moment needed. “Before I go to look, I want you to know I love you, Leo.”

His answering response was to bring me down onto the bed with his body covering every inch of mine as he took my mouth in a kiss to claim me and leave me breathless as he devoured me.

When we finally broke apart, it took everything in me to get up and leave Leo for the minute it would take me to find out if I was pregnant or not.

With tears brimming, I came back to the bedroom and lay down on the bed. Earlier I thought I didn’t want to be pregnant, and that I wasn’t ready, but when I saw the test came back negative, a small piece of my heart broke.

Draping an arm around my waist, Leo’s hand spanned the entirety of my stomach. “Everly, you need to speak to me. I don’t know what this means. Are you pregnant?”

I couldn’t answer him with words. Instead, I turned around and wrapped my body around his. While I cried into his chest, I shook my head, giving him the answer I didn’t want to give.

“Oh babe, I’m sorry. I have to say, even though it wasn’t something I thought I was ready for, I’m kind of sad about it. Is that how you’re feeling?” I nodded and hugged him tighter. “What I said to you before still stands true. I love you, Everly, and one day we’ll be a family, but today is not that day.”

“I didn’t think it would hurt like this. I thought I’d be fine if it was negative, but I really thought I was, you know. Why else would I be late and my moods all over the place?”

“I don’t know.” He ran his hand down my hair and brought me closer into the fold of his arms. “Maybe after this weekend we should sit down and talk about what we want for our future.”

“Like what?”

“If you want to travel and if so, where to. When we want to have kids, and how many kids we want. Things of that nature that people usually discuss when dating. I mean, maybe we want to try and have kids sooner rather than later. I’d like my kids to have cousins close in age.”

“I’d like that too. After growing up as an only child and seeing the way you are with your brother and the way you talk to your sister on the phone, I think I want a big family.”

“What’s big to you? Four is normal for me.”

I had no idea. Four sounded like a lot of kids.

“Let’s go normal. Maybe I should hold on to my number until I’ve spawned one. I might change my mind.”

“Probably wise.” His hand ran down my back to cup my ass. “I know I won’t have any problem knocking you up as many times as you want.”

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