They both laughed. Inside, Nate suddenly threw both hands up in victory. Trent grabbed his shoulders and shook him. Even Will was suddenly on his feet, jumping up and down. Jesse launched himself onto Will’s back, and for his part, Will didn’t miss a beat, grabbing his brother’s legs and zooming around the room with him like they were kids.
I shook my head slowly. “Look at them.”
Charlotte laughed. “It would’ve been embarrassing if wasn’t so adorable.”
“Deeply,” Jane agreed, but she was smiling when she said it. She shifted in her chair and grimaced. “This baby really likes stretching into my ribs.”
“Is that what’s making you glow?” I asked, not even really teasing. She genuinely was glowing.
She looked up. “It’s not making me glow. It’s making me sore.”
“You are glowing,” Charlotte said immediately. “It’s actually annoying how good you’re looking.”
“Okay, fine. I’ll take it.” Jane laughed, absently rubbing a hand over her stomach. “I spent weeks throwing up all day long, so I feel like I deserve to glow.”
“You do, but you are feeling better though, right?” I asked, suddenly worried about how remote this place was. “Would you like to move inside, or?—”
“I’m fine.” She rolled her eyes when I kept my head cocked and my eyes on hers, concerned now that I’d realized how far away we were from any medical professionals. “Kate, I’m onehundred percent okay now. I even went for a full check-up before we left and my doctor gave me the go-ahead for the trip. Stop worrying.”
Alex appeared briefly in the window behind her, just checking in again. He’d been doing it systematically all weekend. His entire face softened as he looked at her, but then Nate said something that dragged his attention back inside and he disappeared again.
Charlotte made a quiet sound. “God, he’s so obsessed with you.”
Jane chuckled. “I hope so. Our due date is this fall, so he’d better not change his mind now.”
“Wow, that’s closer than I thought,” I said, blinking rapidly. “Do you really still not know what it is?”
She groaned. “No.”
“You’re stronger than me,” Charlotte said. “I don’t think I’d last eight minutes before finding out.”
Jane laughed. “I almost asked last week.”
“What stopped you?”
“Alex,” she said. “He wants to be surprised.”
Charlotte rolled her eyes. “Of course, he does.”
“I want to be surprised too,” Jane said quickly. “I do.”
I arched an eyebrow at her. “You don’t sound convinced.”
“I’m dying,” she admitted. “It’s killing me not to know.”
Charlotte leaned forward. “Boy or girl?”
Jane rested both hands on her stomach. “I think it’s a boy.”
“You do?” I asked.
She nodded. “I don’t know why. I just do.”
Charlotte smiled. “Alex probably thinks that too.”
“He won’t say,” Jane said. “He says he doesn’t care.”
“That means he cares,” Charlotte said as the men erupted again from inside, shouting overlapping with laughter and groans.
