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“Brook? Brook wouldn’t…”
“I know. I think they got some woman to pretend to be her thinking I would leave or kick you out of my house if I thought you were pregnant with someone else’s baby. I had Waylen look into tracking the number down, but it just came back to a burner phone.”
“So…you thought…you’re a good man. Wanting to…take care of someone like that.”
I start laughing before looking into her eyes, “I don’t want to take care of ‘someone’ like that. I just want to take care of you like that.”
I’m glad she thinks I’m a good person but all that care and worry…it’s just for her.
“But…but I’m not…I’m not pregnant.”
“Maybe not yet.” I wiggle my eyebrows at her reminding her of what we were doing before the two idiots interrupted us.
“Not yet?” She looks utterly stunned. “Oh my God!”
She’s standing and pacing before I can stop her or say something that will soothe her worries. What exactly is she worried about? Does she just not want a baby? Or is it just me she doesn’t want a baby with?
“We…we didn’t use anything. I’m not on anything, Gareth.”
“So?” I’m still not seeing the problem here.
“Are you serious? This is going to be over in a couple of days and then you’re going to leave me and you don’t even care that you knocked me up? What the fuck?” She jerks the neck of the shirt up over her shoulder where it has fallen. I really should have gotten her new clothes by now but I love having her flit around in nothing but one of my shirts.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. What’s going to be over in a few days?”
“This. Us. You said after a few days it would be over.”
“No, I didn’t. I said in a few days someone will probably come looking for us to make sure we’re still alive and haven’t fucked ourselves into oblivion.”
She sinks down to the bed beside me. “Then what?”
“I figure then you’ll want to come up for some air and actually…”
“No, I mean…what happens after…all the sex and stuff.”
Her cheeks turn a soft red making me chuckle again.
“Well, afterward, I would like to take you shopping so you don’t feel like I’m trying to keep you naked all the time…even though I really like you being that way. As long as no one else is around of course. Then I figure we’ll get started on fixing up the front of the house. The bedroom and kitchen should be just fine until we fix the front rooms but if you want to stay somewhere else while I fixed them up we can start looking for a place.”
“Start looking? A place to stay? What?”
She looks so confused so I pull her into my lap and take her mouth in a quick kiss before I explain.
“I want you to come live with me. I want you to stay with me even though you don’t necessarily have to. I want you to bring your puppy and all of the books at your mom's that you didn’t take to your apartment and come stay with me.”
“You…you want me to stay. Even after…I mean, you don’t have to keep protecting me because we’re not undercover any longer.”
I smile and turn us so I can lay her under me. “I want to keep protecting you for a long, long time whether we are undercover or not. I want to take care of you when you really are pregnant. With my baby. And I want to be the person you run to when you need someone. I want to be your man and I want you to be my lady.”
She smiles at me for the first time since we got to the inn.
“Did you think I was going to let you go?”
“I… I was worried that maybe… it would be over and you would want to get back to your life.” Tears leave her eyes shiny but don’t spill over the rim of her eyelashes.
“Baby, I don’t want a life if you’re not in it with me.”
The tears she was trying so hard to hold back come now but I think these are a little different. Hopefully, they are good tears and that’s all Birdie will ever shed when she’s with me.
