Page 32 of Poisonous Kiss
“What?”
I take her hand and walk down the original path I took, and it takes us to a sliding glass door. I open it since I left it unlocked earlier, but she doesn’t need to know that part yet.
“Ezra, you can’t just walk into people’s homes,” she scolds me. I continue to walk and go into the kitchen.
“Wow, it’s beautiful.” She looks around. She goes into the living room and starts to meander down the hall before I continue.
“I found it and thought it’d be cool to raise a family in.”
“What?” She pops her head out of the room she just walked into.
“Yeah, it’s like five rooms with six baths. I figured it’d be big enough for a family. I’ve always wanted to have a true family dinner, so the dining room is pretty decently sized, and we’re sitting on twenty acres of forest—” And next thing I know, she’s jumping into my arms and squealing.
“It’s ours?” she asks.
“It’s ours,” I reply with a genuine smile.
“But you said family. There’s your brother, but we don’t have a kid, Ezra.”
I place my hand on her stomach and look at her face. I get lost in those same blue eyes, and my heart swells.
“When was your last period, baby?”
“Well I should start on the fifteenth.”
“And what day is it?”
I wait for a moment before I answer. “The twenty-ninth.”
Her eyes start to tear before I pull her to me.
“How did you know before me?”
“Because I know your cycle, and you refused my waffles last week. You never refuse waffles.”
“I really do love you,” she says with tears in her eyes.
“I love you.” I bend down and press my lips against hers. “I hope that wasn’t a poisonous kiss.”
