I had no reason to believe Liam would leave me to handle all of this on my own, but I also had no reason to believe he wouldn’t. All I could do was hope Cassie was right about him. And there was only one way to find out.
“I guess I’ll call him and tell him what’s going on.”
“Do you want us to leave or stay?” Ellie asked.
“You guys can go. I’m going to ask him to come over so we can talk in person. If he shows up and we’re all here, he’ll probably be even more overwhelmed than he’s about to be.”
Cassie and Ellie left after swearing—again—that they wouldn’t tell my brothers anything. Not yet. Colt and Jace would flip when they found out I was pregnant. They’d lose their minds when they found out who the father was.
My brothers wouldn’t care if I had a baby without being married. Colt and Ellie had done the same thing. But this was different.
This was having a baby with one of their best friends.
The same guy they’d made promise to never touch me.
And he had. Way more than an innocent kiss.
I picked up my phone, my hands refusing to stop shaking, and dialed Liam’s number three times before remembering the right sequence. My brain wasworried about much bigger things than his damn telephone number.
He answered on the second ring. “Hello?”
“Liam?”
“Yes.”
“I’m pregnant.”
So much for easing into the big news. Nope. I just laid it all out on the table in the first sentence. Ready or not, Liam—your life has changed forever.
At first, he didn’t respond, but I could hear him breathing through the phone.
“Are you still there?” I asked weakly.
“Uh, yeah,” he said after another couple of seconds.
“Can you come over so we can talk?” I wasn’t sure what to do, and talking it out seemed like the right thing.
“Where are you?”
“My house.”
“I’ll be there in ten,” Liam said before ending the call.
Perfect. I had ten minutes to get everything I wanted to say organized in my head—the same head that felt like an atomic bomb had gone off inside it.
What would I say?
What would I ask?
Hey Liam… so we had sex, and somehow, even though we were super responsible adults, I still ended uppregnant. Wanna raise a baby with me even though we’re practically strangers and have never even been on a date?
As time ticked by, I stayed frozen on the couch, rehearsing how I wanted the conversation to go, over and over again, in my mind. Rehearsal slowly turned into reasoning, and I tried to convince myself that Liam would do the right thing. Cassie spoke so highly of him—there was no way he’d leave me to raise this baby on my own. I was just getting in my head, like I always did.
The hard knock on my front door made me jump.
The fastest ten minutes of my life.
I opened the door, not surprised by who stood on the other side.
