Alfie squealed loudly, and Rowan winced at the sound.
“Carry on.” He heard the excitement creeping into Axel’s voice.
“Then she made this crazy comment about if she didn’t know better, she’d say I was preggers too.”
“Are you?” Alfie blurted, his face wide with a grin.
He laughed at his brother's excitement, but then Rowan sobered.
“I don’t know, to be honest.” Rowan sighed. “You know we did the test a week after everything, and it was negative.”
“You know that could have been a false negative,” Axel pointed out, not telling him anything he didn’t know.
As a nurse, Ro was fully aware that sometimes the tests could be wrong, and since he couldn’t exactly walk into his GP and ask to be tested, here they were.
Although you could have slipped it into the lab, a voice pointed out. Rowan ignored that voice.
The part of him that had been crushed and didn’t want to go through it again refused to do anything. He’d told himself it was good, and he and Mikhail could keep getting to know each other.
Besides, Rowan didn’t have any of the normal symptoms of pregnancy, and it was five weeks later.
He wasn’t pregnant.
Mik and he had not even gone all the way after the scare, not to say they hadn’t done other things.
“Earth to Rowan.” Axel’s voice penetrated his thoughts.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m here.”
“So, are you going to take the test again?” Alfie pointed out.
Ro shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“Have you gained weight?” Alfie asked. “Any weird cravings?”
“No cravings,” Rowan replied, thinking about it. “Does popcorn count?”
“Just take a bloody test.” Axel shook his head, rolling his eyes.
Rowan closed his eyes. He had to admit he had been getting tired quicker than usual lately, but he’d put that down to long days at work and sleeping later since he started staying over at Mik’s.
“The pregnancy test wasn’t wrong. I’m not pregnant,” he mumbled.
“Bollocks, you baby,” Axel said. “Take the bloody test. Find out if you’re having a baby.”
Rowan huffed. “I’ll think about it.
He dialled Mikhail after hanging up with his brothers.
“Hey, babe,” Mikhail said on answering the call.
“I’m done at work. I should be home… I mean back soon,” he told Mik. Ro caught his slip and hoped Mik didn’t call him out on it.
“I’m here, but I was thinking maybe we go out for dinner tonight?” Mikhail added, “If you’re up for it.”
“Dinner tonight sounds amazing,” Rowan replied. “But what’s the occasion?”
“Do we really need an occasion?” Mikhail teased.
