The nausea hit me first thing this morning, and theheadache followed soon after. After sitting on the cold bathroom floor for almost an hour, I’m no closer to answers than I was yesterday.
I even peed on three sticks to make sure she was right. Each one came up positive almost instantly. I should be elated by the news, but my thoughts keep returning to the same fucked up fact: I’m married to a man who doesn’t love me because I couldn’t bear the thought of coming home to an empty house with an empty ring finger and an empty life.
Empty.
That’s all I am now.
Only… that’s not exactly true, is it?
My hand automatically gravitates toward my belly, even though nothing has visibly changed. It’s instinctive. Soon, there will be a bump there, and later, I’ll feel little kicks and flips. Maybe I don’t have everything figured out, but the most important part—the love part—it’s already unconditional.
Chapter 14
Babies and Baby Daddies
? If He Wanted To he Would - Kylie Morgan
Griffin
Friends.Such a stupid fucking word, and yet it’s been the only thing on my mind for three agonizing weeks. I don’t know how much longer I can stand seeing her damn near every day and pretending I don’t want her with every fiber of my being. It’s going to break me.
I’m standing with Jaxon near the paddock when a black SUV pulls into the lot. “You expecting someone?”
He turns, following my line of sight. “No. You?”
I shake my head. Angie’s supposed to be here later, but it’s not her.
The driver’s side door opens, and out steps a man I haven’t seen in years. “Doc? Thought you retired.”
A smile spreads across Doctor Briggs’s face, deepening his fine lines and crow’s feet. He runs his hand through his grey hair. “Good to see you, too, Griff.” He nods once at my brother. “Jax.”
“What brings you out to the ranch?” Jaxon asks.
Doctor Briggs was Angie's predecessor. He’s been retired for the better part of three years.
“Angelina called,” he says. “Told me it’s vaccine day for some of the herd.”
“Doesn’t explain whatyou’redoin’ here. Where’s Angel?”
He lets out a hearty laugh, his eyes crinkling. “Angel, huh? So, the rumors are true? You two got hitched?”
“Running out of patience here.”
“She’s sick. Took the day off.” His brow furrows as he narrows his eyes at me. “Shouldn’t her husband know something like that?”
I lock eyes with Jaxon.
He nods tersely. “Go.”
I fumble with my keys as I rush to my truck and put it in drive.
Sick.
Took the day off.
It doesn’t make sense. Angelina hasn’t missed a single day of work that wasn’t planned out well in advance. Not one in three fucking years. She sometimes asks Doctor Briggs to cover if she has a busy schedule and can’t make it to an emergency call-out, but otherwise, she’s as predictable as the tides.
I dial her number several times, but she doesn’t pick up. My grip tightens around the steering wheel as I navigate through the familiar streets. A drive that would normally take fifteen minutes only takes ten.
