“But…” I see the gears in his brain turning.“You’re sure?”
“Am I sure that I peed on them?”
“No!I mean… could they be wrong?”
“That’s what I’m asking you!But I took five tests.They’re all positive.So I need you to tell me if I’m crazy.”
“I…” Declan can’t speak.
“I’m pregnant, aren’t I?”
“Summer, are you pregnant?”
“I don’t know.You tell me.”We’re getting nowhere.I grab on to his hands and grip them hard.“Declan, I’m totally serious.Tell me what the actual fuck is happening.Am I pregnant?”
We both turn our heads to eye the lineup of positive pregnancy tests on the coffee table.Then we turn back to each other.He stares at me, dumbstruck.
“But I can’t be pregnant, right?”I ask him.“Declan, you were right next to me when Dr.Goldberg told us it was impossible.”
He snaps to attention.“He didn’t say that.He told us that in hisprofessional opinionyou couldn’t get pregnant.Maybe he’s a clueless hack.”
“But he’s supposed to be the best ovary guy in the country!”
“Summer, if you’re pregnant, then maybeI’mthe best ovary guy in the country!”
“Declan.What should we do?”
“We get you to a doctor to be sure.”
“Right.We should keep it to ourselves until we’ve gotten a bunch of tests, right?”
“Absolutely.”
“So, we just keep this between the two of us for now.”
“Agreed.How far along are you, do you think?”
I try to pin it down, but I really have no way of knowing.“We’ve been havinga lotof sex, Declan.”
“Tell me about it.”
“I wasn’t pregnant when I had my surgery, and then there was that two-week dry spell.”
“Tell me about it.”
“And then I ran off and you came after me.So that night in Lompoc going forward, I guess.”
“That night was great,” he says.
“It really was.”
“Summer?”Declan traces his fingertip along my jaw and tips up my chin.He drops his mouth on mine, and gives me the most intense, heartfelt kiss I think I’ve ever had.I wonder if it will always be like this for us, so impossibly good.So true.
Something wet falls on my cheek.My husband is crying.
And then so am I.
I jump into his arms and swing my legs around his hips, and he kisses my throat, my chest, the tops of my breasts, even though it hurts a bit.
