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“Oh, hi,” Sofia says as if she didn’t know I was coming here. “So he made it.”
“He made it,” Zara states, looking up at me. “He definitely made it.”
“That’s good.” She sounds nervous. “Have you guys talked?”
“I’m sitting in his lap,” Zara shares and Sofia groans.
“This is going to be very, very bad,” she moans. “Why? Why couldn’t you guys not do this?”
“It was a force stronger than us,” I finally say and Zara puts her head on my chest.
“So you two spoke… about everything?”
“The pregnancy test fell literally at his feet,” Zara explains, trying not to laugh but laughing loudly anyway.
“And what did the pregnancy test reveal?” she asks with bated breath.
I look at Zara, who looks at me and then the phone. “You can’t tell a soul.”
“This is very, very bad,” she sings. “I don’t want to know,” she quickly says. “I don’t know, I didn’t ask. The only thing I know is that my cousin called me because he wanted your address to send you flowers.” We both laugh. “That’s my story and I’m going to die on this hill.”
“Well, someone sent her flowers,” I grumble and immediately want to take it back. It makes me sound needy. “But it wasn’t me.”
“That was me!” Sofia shrieks. “Well, not me, RC sent her flowers and a cupcake. Anyway, I’m letting you go before you slip something out and I have to keep another secret from my husband.” She doesn’t even let us say goodbye before she hangs up the phone. I toss the phone to the side.
“You’re having my baby,” I say, not sure if it’s for her or for myself. Listening to the words, she nods.
“I haven’t been with anyone but you and the last time I was with Daniel was October,” she admits to me. She closes her eyes. “I have to tell my parents.”
“I have to tell Colson,” I add up the list of people who need to know, “then I have to tell my parents.” I kiss her lips softly. “We’ll tell your parents tomorrow and then if you can come down, we can tell my parents this weekend.”
Her smile starts small but then fills her face. “Can I ride Fireball?” Her eyes light up and I shake my head.
“Sorry, Sweetheart, but that’s not safe.” I hate to break her heart like that, then she sits up in my lap.
“You aren’t the boss of me, Gabriel.”
“Sweetheart, it’s not safe for you to ride a horse when you are pregnant,” I inform her, “but if you want, we can go to the doctor. If she says it’s okay, then I will gladly saddle her up for you.” I know full well the doctor is going to tell her that it is not safe. “But we can go and see her.”
It takes her a couple of minutes to think of a comeback or anything. “Fine,” she counters with the plan, “but you have to tell her that I can’t ride her so she doesn’t hate me.”
“I’ll take the brunt of her wrath,” I agree. “We should get some food in you.”
She turns in my lap, straddling me. “We should,” she says mischievously, “but first we should…” She puts her hand on my chest. “I don’t know, get naked so I can see if I remember what you look like.” She comes in for a kiss. “See if the sex is as good here in the city as it is in the country.” I laugh at her. “Stop laughing. How do I know you give good sex in the city if we never have sex in the city?”
I push up from the couch and she wraps her legs around my waist. “Sweetheart, it’s going to be even better in the city.”
“You think so?” she asks me as I walk up the stairs.
“I haven’t had you in over six weeks,” I remind her, turning into her room, seeing the bed in the middle of the room. “It’s going to be quick the first time, but I promise to make up for it the second and third time.”
She smirks at me. “Promises, promises.” She stops speaking when my mouth claims hers, and I show her exactly how good we are together in the city or in the country.
25
ZARA
I open my eyes and feel the heat behind me, then feel his hand resting on my stomach. Gabriel. I smile and blink at the same time. There is nothing I’ve wanted more in my life than for him to be here when I was taking the tests. But I knew it was never going to happen, until I opened the door and saw him. The cowboy who is in my dreams. We spent most of the night naked, only stopping when he made me order ginger ale and some saltines, along with some soup and pizza.
