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is still eager to make her proud.
    “ You’ve got
me,” Caleb’s reassuring words do just that. He’s right, I have got
him and my friends. They are all I need.
    “ Forever,” I
murmur, my eyes on my sparkly ring.
    “ For all of
eternity,” his lips slant over mine but quickly pull back when the
woman walks back in with our scan pictures.
    When we get home Caleb frames
it and puts it on the wall in the hallway, “This will be our
timeline. Our wedding photo will be in the middle. Tomorrow I’m
going to put our first ever picture right here.”
    “ You’re such
a romantic,” I laugh and kiss his stubble. “I’ll put dinner
on.”
    “ Brilliant,
chicken wraps?”
    I nod and walk away, my hand
pressed against my belly.
    “ Hey, almost
forgot,” I’m spun in a second and Caleb is down on his knees,
pulling my top over my midriff. He presses his hands on my naval
and then kisses in between them. “Love you baby Weston.”
    I just melted again. He has
that effect on me.

    ******

    I cling to the seat, my
forehead on my arms. Caleb ties my hair back from my face and rubs
slow circles on my back. “Finished?”
    Hurl.
    “ I guess
not,” he says around a yawn and wipes my forehead and then my mouth
with a cool cloth. That feels nice. “Poor baby.”
    “ I hate this.
You’ve done this,” I joke and sit back on the cool tiled floor.
“Ugh. If I’m never sick again it’ll be too soon.”
    “ It’s a good
sign, he’s growing well.” Caleb is insistent that it’s a boy. He
really, really wants a boy but he’ll be happy still if we get a
girl. “Caleb Weston,” he says with his hand on my tum. Has a nice
ring to it.”
    I laugh and slap his arm before
climbing to my feet, “That’s your name.”
    “ Exactly,”
his arms snake around my waist as I quickly brush my teeth, eager
to get the putrid taste of vomit from my mouth and rid my teeth of
that gritty feeling. “Fourteen weeks and three days. Can we start
telling people now?”
    “ Don’t give
me that,” I say, my mouth full of minty foam. Spit. “I know you’ve
told everyone already. Even Sasha knows though she’s pretending she
doesn’t.”
    He has the decency to look
ashamed, “I couldn’t help it.”
    “ You’re
incorrigible,” I snort and rinse out my mouth, squirming when
Caleb’s hand cups my sex through my pyjama shorts. Shiver. “Right
now? Really? My stomach is still doing somersaults.”
    “ Let me take
your mind off it,” he breathes against my neck and pushes his
hardened length against my arse cheek.
    A banging sounds at the door
downstairs, both of our heads whip around. “Who’s that? It’s like,”
I check my watch. “Six fifteen.”
    “ No idea,
sounds urgent,” Caleb says and releases me. “Stay here.”
    I nod and follow him into the
room and then the hall. I wait at the top of the stairs and listen
as Caleb opens the door.
    I don’t recognize the male
voice that starts speaking over Caleb’s but I soon know who it is
when Caleb asks him, “What do you want Nathan?”
    “ I can’t let
you do this,” Nathan responds, his voice deep and low. Do
what?
    I descend the stairs, my
curiosity increasing tenfold with every step when their voices
become hushed. Did Caleb just say, “I love her, I swear?” Because I
can’t be certain.
    When I make it to the last step
two sets of matching eyes come to me. Nathan is a couple of inches
taller than Caleb and although they look alike, Nathan’s face is
much sharper than Caleb’s and there isn’t a hint of stubble. He’s
wearing a suit, he looks good but why’s he wearing a suit at ten at
night? And gloves. What’s up with the black leather gloves? It’s
warm out.
    His eyes scan my body, a dark
look on his face. My hand goes to my belly almost protectively.
    “ I told you
to stay upstairs,” Caleb hisses with a frown.
    “ I’m Gwen,” I
say to Nathan and hold out my hand. “It’s nice to meet
you.”
    Nathan looks at my hand for a
few seconds before