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“If anything had happened differently, then we wouldn’t be about to have two of these.” Drew grins at Ruby as he finishes dressing her and lifts her up into his arms. She places her hands on his face and he immediately kisses them, making her giggle.
“That’s true,” I murmur.
“I wouldn’t change a thing.” His eyes meet mine. “Not one damn thing. I’ve got everything I ever wanted right here.”
His gaze drops to my small bump. Doctor Melinda said I might begin to show earlier because I’m having twins. To most people, I probably look bloated. But to Drew, I must look like aMichelinmeal, because he can’t stop trying to devour me.
We take a clean and happy Ruby back downstairs and everyone cheers as we walk in. Rachel comes to take her and announces it’s food time, and Drew gets pulled aside by Tanner to look for a lighter for the cake candle.
“I never thought I’d see the day,” Maddy says, following my gaze to where Drew and Tanner are frowning in front of a giant unicorn cake in a deep discussion about where the single candle should go.
“Oh?” I smile as Drew’s about to put the candle in and Tanner bats his hand away and points at another spot.
“Yeah. My brother’s always loved kids. I think he’d almost given up on having his own. Especially when he told me the woman of his dreams turned him down.” She giggles. “You made him work for you. You’ve been good for him.”
“He’s the one who’s good for me.”
Tanner puts the candle in and it promptly falls over, deforming the unicorn’s eye, and Drew bites his fist to hide his laugh.
“I mean it,” Maddy continues. “He’d become such a damn grump. But now…” She smiles as she watches Drew fix the cake. “Now he’s joking again. He’s got stuff to look forward to. He’s got you.” She squeezes my arm. “He’s a lucky guy and he knows it. Although I’m not sure how I feel about you making me the middle child. Aren’t they the weird ones?” She laughs, nudging me.
Warmth expands my chest as I stand next to her. She could so easily hate me after what I’ve done to her family, but instead, she’s telling me that her brother’s lucky to have me.
I couldn’t disagree more.
Drew’s laughter cuts across the kitchen at something Tanner says, and I smile.
I’mthe lucky one.
Chapter 21
Sophie
Great.
My stomach twists at the sight of the familiar form outside my building as I step out for lunch. It’s too late to avoid him because his gray eyes are already zeroing in on me. They widen as they take in the expanding curve of my stomach in my pencil skirt.
“Soph?”
I walk over to him, not returning his smile. “It’s been weeks, and this is how you want to do this?” I glance back at the doorman of our office building and then gesture down the street.
Henry falls into step beside me as I walk.
“I was going to call sooner.”
I say nothing because I’m glad he didn’t. His radio silence has been a blessing. Some days, I almost forget Drew and I aren’t a regular, happy couple expecting their first babies together. Like when we sit on his couch at night, and he rubs my feet while reading from one of the pregnancy books he’s bought. He could start his own library with them all.
“You should have told me if you wanted to talk. I’d have arranged something when I wasn’t working. When Drew could be here.”
“My son,” Henry snaps, grabbing my wrist and pulling me to a stop in the middle of the street, “doesn’t need to be here to talk aboutourbaby.”
I raise a brow as I look at his hand around my arm and he drops it immediately.
“Babies,” I correct, my voice filled with a quiet warning. “I’m having two, remember?”
Henry chuckles as if I’ve said something funny.
“You don’t know what you’re doing with him. He won’t look after you the way he should.”
