Page 104 of Burning Love
Six days from now. Talia was going to have to figure out how to hide this. It seemed once she was up and showered, had her coffee, and a light breakfast, she was good to go.
The key was keeping fluids in her all day.
“What are you going to tell her?” he asked.
“I don’t know. Let’s wait to see what we find out today. Everything is early.”
They’d only been dating for about two months. She got pregnant within a few weeks of them meeting and having sex.
Urgh!
They’d have to talk after today as much as she was dreading it.
Financially she was secure.
She’d have her mother for help and support.
She didn’t need Jace even if she wanted him.
She was working herself up for the worst-case scenario. He wasn’t acting happy about the news.
Neither was she.
She wasn’t upset or sad, not even angry.
Just...existing in the moment until she had this appointment.
He was doing the same and she wondered if he was feeding off of her or she was feeding off of him.
“It is. But we can’t keep this a secret. Your mother is going to find out. You live in the same house with her. You’re still sick in the morning.”
“It’s getting better,” she said. “I’ve got a routine.”
He nodded his head. He had asked her all the time about her health. He was concerned, but the actual reason for her not feeling well wasn’t brought up.
They didn’t talk again until he pulled into the parking lot of the medical complex.
“Are you going to let me go in with you?” he asked.
“Did you want to?”
His hand reached over and landed on hers and he took a deep breath. It was the first he showed a sincere reaction to what was going on. “I don’t want you doing this alone. We haven’t really talked about this.”
“I’ve been following your lead. You didn’t seem as if you wanted to.”
“Neither have you. I’ve been following yours.”
Her head went back and forth as she laughed. “We’re a piece of work. It’s early. A lot can happen I don’t want to even think about, but I’m not naïve either. I think for me, I wanted to hear what the doctor said before I let myself really say, here comes another Carlisle.”
“Rigby,” he said firmly.
She smiled. “Rigby.”
There was no way she was telling him that some of her thoughts were his job.
How dangerous it was.
They never even talked about the day she watched him battling the fire.
