“Let’s take a look, shall we?” Dr. Pepper asked, opening the condom package for a reason that Courtney seriously did not understand.
Bax also had awhat the fucklook drawn across his face too, so at least it wasn’t only her.
Dr. Pepper lifted the wand thing, and everything got clearer when she rolled the condom down the shaft of the wand.
“Uh,” Bax said aloud.
Yeah. That.
“Have you ever had an internal ultrasound before?” Dr. Pepper asked, turning knobs and flicking switches.
Courtney glanced at Bax whose eyes seemed to be as wide as her own. “No. Never.”
“Should I step out?” Bax asked, already inching toward the door. “I should step out.”
“Don’t you dare.” Courtney pierced him with what she hoped was asit your ass downstare.
He moved closer to her, leaning in and whispering in her ear, “This seems like a private moment.”
She tilted her lips to his ear, so only he could hear. “Do not leave me alone with your Ten and that wand.”
It must’ve worked, because he sat his ass down.
Dr. Pepper gave the instructions for positioning, and Courtney did as she was told, scooting her bottom down to the end of the table.
Once the probe—it was no longer considered a wand as far as Courtney was concerned—was in place, the black-and-white image flickered on the screen.
“Oh,” Courtney said as theswish, swish, swish, swish, swishsound came through the little speakers.
“That’s the heartbeat.” Dr. Pepper stopped, did some stuff with the machine, and clicked a bunch of buttons. “You can’t see much now. Still pretty little, but this is a healthy rock star of an embryo.”
Courtney’s gaze fixed on the screen. She couldn’t seem to say or do anything other than watch the monitor.
“Wow,” Bax said, and his hand somehow found hers, holding her palm against his. She squeezed, and holy, holy, holy shit. This was an actual human growing inside of her. Not that she’d expected a litter of puppies, just that—
“Wow,” she repeated.
Dr. Pepper started humming one of the early Dimefront songs about breaking up with a too clingy girlfriend.Nice choice.
“I made that.” Bax remained oblivious to Dr. Pepper as he pointed at the screen and grinned like a lunatic.
Uh… say wha?
“Excuse me?” Courtney asked, with what she was certain was the appropriate amount ofWhat the hell?“Which one of us is puking all the time?”
“Right.” He pinched his lips together like he used to do as a kid when he messed up and got caught. The move was adorable and reminiscent and… she hoped their baby did that same thing when they got older.
“You made this.” He tapped the monitor. “I had nothing to do with it.”
Well, he had been present for the main event. His unwillingness to spar with her was really starting to become a nuisance.
“So you hadnothingto do with this? That’s what you’re saying?” Was she picking a fight? Yes. Was it working? To be determined.
“I don’t know what the right answer is here.” He squeezed her hand as he said this.
That little squeeze sent butterflies to her tummy.
“So I’m just going to say the answer is whatever is the right one.” He did the smile thing again, and she totally melted.
