Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 91213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 456(@200wpm)___ 365(@250wpm)___ 304(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 456(@200wpm)___ 365(@250wpm)___ 304(@300wpm)
“Then I’m glad,” I tell her as I open her car door for her.
“I’m also glad we didn’t talk about the pregnancy tonight,” she says softly, her eyes lowering to the ground.
“There’s plenty of time to talk about that,” I assure her. “Just wanted you to meet some of my family since they’ll be going through this with me.”
Stephanie’s gaze comes back up to mine and this time there’s a sparkle of mischief. “You don’t plan on having them in the delivery room, do you?”
I bark out a laugh as I toss my head back. When I look at her again, I’m shaking my head. “Trust me…I’m the only one in this family who will be looking at your—”
My words abruptly cut off as I realize the dual mistake I made. Bringing up sex and implying that I was going to get it again from her. Once again, my foot gets shoved into my mouth.
A sheepish smile takes my mouth hostage. Stephanie cocks an eyebrow at me, but the smirk on her face tells me she’s amused.
“I’m sorry,” I say hastily. “I don’t know why I keep talking about sex with you. I mean…not that I don’t like sex, because I do. Actually, I love it.”
Stephanie tilts her head to the side and says, “And why is it that we shouldn’t talk about the sex we had? I mean, it was phenomenal.”
“Yes, it was,” I agree with her.
Best. Sex. Ever.
“Look,” she says as she lays a hand on my forearm. “This is new territory for both of us. I get that it’s awkward, but we need to move past that. Otherwise we’re going to be in for a miserable time over the next several months.”
“I agree,” I say readily.
“We should have sex again,” she says at the same time.
“What?” I exclaim even as my groin tightens at the thought. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to fantasizing about that night a time or twenty. But I wasn’t prepared for the possibility that that could happen again, because it just seemed selfish to say, “Hey…sorry I knocked you up, but I’d really like to fuck you again.”
“Well, why not?” Stephanie says simply as her hand falls away. “You and I are both healthy adults, I certainly can’t get any more pregnant, and we clearly had amazing chemistry. I’m single. You’re single—or at least I assume you are—and we both enjoy sex.”
Well, fuck…when you say it like that, why the hell aren’t we having sex right this very minute?
Instead I try to throw some logic out, but I really hope she shoots it down. “It could complicate things.”
“Not if we agree it would be casual,” she says, and I like the way this woman thinks.
There are a million reasons why this would be a bad idea. I know nothing about Stephanie, and yet I have no choice but to try to forge an alliance with her so we can successfully parent our child. Sex would complicate everything, because sex is about emotion, it’s about feeling and opening up. Much of that may be physical, but physical can lead to the nonphysical. How much are we going to both be at risk for confused or hurt feelings when that happens and then doesn’t work out? Because Stephanie doesn’t seem like a relationship type of girl, and I definitely don’t want to be in a committed relationship. I like being single way too much.
“But if you don’t think that’s possible,” she says quickly, “I’m cool with that as well.”
“Now wait a minute,” I say as a hold my palms up to her and ignore logic and reason. “Let’s not be that hasty. This could have some merit.”
Stephanie’s eyes start to sparkle again as she grins at me. “You know, I’ve been researching pregnancy, and apparently my hormones are going to be a little wacky. I’ve heard a very unfortunate side effect is that I will be extremely horny.”
I bust out with a forceful, elated laugh that she can bring humor to the situation. It definitely helps to put me more at ease, and also makes my dick harder because she’s taking away every reason I could have to keep her at arm’s length.
Stepping in close to her, I peer down so I can confirm the truth in her eyes. “Are you sure you want to do this?”
“I don’t see any downside,” she says breathlessly, although we both know that’s just not true. But if she thinks we can have a casual relationship based on sex and it won’t interfere with the new relationship we’re trying to establish, then I think I need to take advantage of that.
Even though I know this could be a colossal mistake, I dip my face down to hers until our mouths are almost touching. “Did I happen to mention that my house is less than five miles from here?”