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“But do you, like,knowalready? Mother’s instinct?” Lauren presses, leaning in as if she’s asking me to tell a secret.
“First hunch is a girl, but I guess we’ll see.”
“Let’s talk names,” Addy says.
“My vote is for Chloe,” Chloe says, and we all laugh.
“There’s only one Chloe,” I say dryly. “I haven’t thought about names.”
“Yeah, but haven’t you ever picked them out before and held onto them your entire life?” Lauren asks.
My brows dip. “No. Have you?”
She nods, and then she pretends to zip her lips. “But I’m not telling you, or you’ll steal them.”
“I will not!” I promise.
She sighs. “Fine. David if it’s a boy, Isabelle if it’s a girl.”
“I love both, and I promise not to take either,” I say.
“What are you going to do? Live here with Addy?” Chloe asks.
I shrug. “This is all very, very new. I literally heard from Asher this morning, was convinced by Addy to take a pregnancy test, and then he showed up when he heard I wasn’t feeling well and took me to the doctor before he left. It’s been a whirlwind, and Ihaven’t really thought about what comes next—aside from, you know, food.”
“Then I won’t ask if you think you’ll be moving to Vegas to be closer to your family and the baby daddy,” Lauren says. She grabs another chicken finger out of the box.
In all likelihood, that’s what makes the most sense.
But I’m also dreading the conversation I’ll have to have with my parents. I’ll tell them I’m moving there, and they’ll want to know why I changed my mind, and meanwhile I’ll be growing a baby and unable to hide the bump, and then they’ll want to know who the father is, and I’ll need to admit who it is because we can’t hide out forever, and…
It’s complicated. Asher and I getting back together is complicated enough, but we’re adding a baby into the mix, too.
And I have less than eight months to prepare for an entirely new reality.
Chapter 46: Asher Nash
Two More Brochachos
I stare at Grayson and Lincoln on the screen as we hold a video chat at Spencer’s place. This might be a strange situation, but it’s exactly the sort of brotherly bonding our parents raised us to have.
Which is why it’s so goddamn weird that our dad had an entire other family that he never told us about. That he chose us and wrote off his other two kids.
Two more brochachos in the Nash mix.
Are there more?
Maybe. Who knows…and who knows whether we’ll ever learn the truth?
Would he have told me the truth if I hadn’t gotten someone pregnant? I doubt it, but maybe he would have. It’s part of the unspoken bond of closeness we shared—at least I thought it was. Now I feel more than a little betrayed by the man.
“Brochachos,” I say in greeting, and they both grin at me.
“I hear congratulations are in order,” Grayson says to me.
I lift my glass of whiskey, and Spencer does, too. Grayson and Lincoln do the same on the other side of the screen.
“To surviving each other,” Grayson quips, and Spencer and I touch glasses before we each take a sip.
