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“No, come on, I need her!” Harper whined again as she pulled off her pants and tossed them into the pile also. Now in her underwear, she stared at her little sister, her business partner. “You planned this, didn’t you?”
“I didn’t. I want to be here, but the babies …” Lucy tried to explain.
“How could she have planned this?” Buzz asked.
“Easy, Buzz. She found a way to trigger it to start,” Harper accused, trying not to smile.
“Like what?” Lucy asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
“Sex. Everyone knows that’s the trigger. Good sex,” Harper replied, folding her arms over her chest.
“Does it have to be good?” Mabel asked curiously.
“Yes, Lucy. Why, did you have sex recently?” Harper demanded.
“Not saying.” She knew she had turned red, completely red.
“Lucy, you know better than to have sex when you’re pregnant!” Harper wailed.
“I, um, hadn’t heard that,” Lucy said because she hadn’t. Not that it had pushed her into labor over the last two months anyway. Just today.
“When?! When did you have sex?” Harper demanded.
Lucy knew she was still blushing, realizing it had only been four hours ago. And if good sex triggered labor, then labor was going to happen after their office “meeting.”
Clearing her throat, she countered, “That is a myth. We have had plenty of good sex in the last two months, and nothing happened … until today.”
“Shoot, this was really working in my favor.” Buzz sat down heavily on the stool Sera had abandoned and took a celery stick.
“Sorry, Buzzy,” Lucy said. At five months along, Buzz had been miserable for over half her pregnancy already, and the remaining months weren’t looking to get any better for her. Now her plan to trigger labor was out the window.
Buzz took a loud bite and then grinned. “So, a lot of good sex, Lucy?”
“Shut up, Buzz,” Lucy hissed, not wanting to talk about it.
Mabel took out her phone. “We had better call Leo.”
“Shoot, he’s going to be pissed. This was not on his schedule today,” Lucy said, because despite not working for him, she still kept a mental copy of his schedule out of habit.
“Well, pencil it in, Lucy! It’s happening.” Sera gave her a hug as they started for the door, leaving Harper alone, mad, and taking off her shirt to throw in the pile with the rest of her clothes. Lucy was sure she would never hear the end of this one.
Eight hourslater it had happened, and their family of six became a family of eight. Both exes had brought their respective children to see them. Kelly had held both of the babies and gushed over how cute they were, while Stacy hadn’t even come into the room with the girls.
Since they had gotten married, Leo and Lucy had decided to try and get more time with the girls, which had been met with resistance from Stacy. But they were getting the kids twice as much as Leo had before they’d gotten married.
It had taken another few hours to get every Lovely to leave, many coming back the instant they thought everyone was gone. Finally, Harrison took Sera home, promising to keep her there until at least the morning.
“Can I bring up how you were not supposed to work hard today?” Leo stated, his arms crossed. The call from Mabel had him panicking and leaving in the middle of a delicate negotiation, one that had worked itself out after he had rushed to the hospital, only to beat Lucy there—by half an hour.
“I didn’t work hard. Nothing I hadn’t done before,” Lucy stated.
“That’s not the definition of ‘hard’ when you are eight months pregnant with twins,” he said, as always. She wasn’t one for not working hard.
“Okay, so I wasn’t actually thinking they would come today. The doctors said nothing about today,” she argued. It wasn’t a good argument, but it was the one she was going with.
“They said ‘anytime.’”
“That doesn’t mean today,” she said and tapped on the railing of the bed.
