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The smell of every food on the planet with the exception of my snowballs made him sick. He was going to sleep earlier and waking up later.
Wait a damned minute.
Stomach. Sleepy. Food aversions. Scent change.
“Antoine?” I called out and stepped into the bathroom. I grabbed a washcloth, ran some hot water over it, and soaked another one with cool. My poor omega. Suffering through this…this morning sickness.
“I didn’t even eat this morning. No coffee. Nothing.” His chin quivered. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Did I mention that I hate being sick?”
I nodded and flushed the toilet and closed the lid, helping him to sit on top of it.
“Here you go.” I handed him the cloth for his face while placing the other one on the back of his neck. “And yes, you mentioned that once or twice.”
“Maybe it’s time we go to the healer. I need to finish my paintings and I can’t when I’m running here to throw up every five minutes.”
My mate was hurting and in turn, I was hurting with him. What pained him pained me.
“I think I know what might be happening to you, Antoine,” I said, speaking as gently as I could.
“What is it? Food poisoning? I thought of that, but we always cook at home, and you keep the kitchen spotless. There’s no way. There is something else I thought of…”
Before he spiraled any more, I put my hand up. “I think you might be pregnant, my love.”
He stopped talking immediately and sat up. “Do you, do you think so?”
“Think about your symptoms, Antoine.”
He gave me a faint smile. “I actually already did. And then I promptly put it out of my mind. But, the other day, I bought something just in case. I didn’t want to do it alone.”
He opened the drawer in the cabinet and pulled out pregnancy tests. Three of them.
“You never have to do anything alone. Especially this,” I said. We read the instructions together, and I stayed in the bathroom while he took the test and then hopped in the shower. He thought the cool water might help him.
As he got out, the timer went off, alerting us that the test was ready.
“Read it, alpha. Read it for me, please.”
I picked up the stick and saw two lines. I conferred with the instructions and then turned to my mate. “It’s positive, Antoine. You’re pregnant.”
He let a huge breath whoosh from his mouth. “We didn’t talk about this. I mean, we said we were going to have kids eventually but I didn’t know it would be this soon. I’m sorry.”
“What?” I raised my voice and reached for him, pulling him into my embrace. “Why in the world are you sorry? Our love did this. Our love created this little one in your belly. I’m so damned happy right now. Aren’t you? It’s not the best timing, but these things rarely are.”
“I am,” he said and dropped the towel. He put his hands on his belly. “Our babe is in there.”
“They are,” I replied and kissed his temple and then his lips. He’d brushed his teeth in the shower which I once thought was silly, but he did it to save time. “We still need to go to the healer and see about these symptoms though. There has to be something we can do.”
I put my hands over his, knowing that we created something together out of love and it was growing inside him. There was no limit to my joy.
“I’ll call Quinn the healer now. He’s in town.”
“Good,” I said. “And after that, I’m celebrating this body and you.”
Chapter Seventeen
Antoine
We traveled to the city for the gallery opening. It was part of my agreement with them, and it would be our first weekend away as a couple, making the duty much less onerous than usual. With everything happening so fast since the day we met, we hadn’t even had much time for doing things like going out to dinner. While we were gone, Roy, West’s best customer, was going to run the truck. He was beyond excited and glad to do it for all the ice he could eat.
