Page 6 of The Ranger
CHAPTER ONE
SCARLETT
Four months later
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“Ilove the way youbrush your teeth while watching my every move.Even when you think I’m not watching.”Marshall preens at Trina.
Vomit.
“Yes, yes, because you’re hot.Hurry up.”I roll my hand around in the air hoping to hurry them along.I’m eight months pregnant, need to pee for the twentieth time in the past hour, and my baby daddy is here.
Cole.
The big giant dickface.
Fine, he’s been amazing, and that just makes it all that much harder.I wish he’d do something horrible to make me hate him.Like fuck some random girl in a hallway where I’d catch him.There would be witnesses who surrounded me and showered me with pity.
Or push an old lady into a puddle.
But oh no, he’s like the perfect father-to-be.
Ugh.
Marshall’s currently proposing to Trina.Or just about to.I’m pretty sure she knows, so I wish he’d hurry the hell up so I can pee.
“Excuse me?”Cole mutters in my ear.
“Heishot.Get over it.”I hiss.
With me being pregnant with his child, Cole now thinks I belong to him.But he’s also hot and cold.One minute I find him looking at me as if I’m the love of his life—huge joke—the next he looks terrified, like he wants to run for his life, seeking the closest exit off the planet.
Good; I hope the world is flat, and he jumps.
“You’re pregnant with my child.Stop saying shit like that,” Cole hisses back.
Exhibit A.
“Yeah, well, I’m going to pee our baby out my va-jay-jay if he doesn’t pop the question and wrap up now.”
He shakes his head.
Cole does that a lot.
Being in the same social circle has been a blessing and a curse.After an admittedly amazing one-night stand, I found out I was pregnant...three months and one week later.
I blame Cassy.
She fell in love with her bodyguard, and they married, which, yes, yes, lovely and romantic, but it’s set off a chain of events that has fucked all up my life.
Sorry, baby, I love you.
I do.In less than a month, our child is going to arrive, and I can’t wait to meet her.Or him.We are at odds about this.
