Men-of-Action-Seres-04 -Saints and Sinners
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She was the devoted agent, mother, presidential candidate…or so they thought.
“Well, it is what it is,” Alaina rolled over in bed. “I won’t dwell on it. I have too many good things to think about.”
“Do you really now?” He trailed his fingers over her collarbone.
“Uh huh,” she nodded. “You see, I have permission from a very sweet little girl to marry her father. You might know him.”
“I might,” he said absently as he let his hand slowly slide down her body.
“And I’m getting married in a couple days.” She gasped as his fingers slid over her breast.
“Uh huh,” he mumbled.
“And I’m…I’m pregnant,” she managed to say. His hand stopped quickly.
“Say that again?”
“I’m pregnant.”
He leaned up on his elbow and looked down at her. “Are you sure?”
She giggled. “I took the test while I was in the bathroom. That’s what took me so long. I suspected, but I wasn’t sure. And well…there was a plus sign. Of course a doctor should confirm, and we should wait until we hit at least three months before we blab to everybody…but, yeah, I’m pregnant.”
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“Wow,” he exhaled slowly. “Wow.”
“You’re not ready for this?” She felt the panic start to creep in. It was too late to change things now. She put drops of pee on that little stick and a plus sign showed up, so she was definitely pregnant…unless the test was defective or something. She had confidence in the test because just yesterday the pharmacist had assured her it was the best brand on the market. She had waited to take the test, thinking maybe she would get her period, but when it hadn’t arrived by that morning she just couldn’t stand the suspense any longer. So she took the test, and it was positive. She hadn’t thought he wouldn’t be happy about it.
“We’re ready,” he assured her. “I’m just…wow, this is fast.”
“Well, I don’t know if you remember, but that night, at the cabin, and then that morning, and that afternoon, and…”
“I remember,” he grinned. He leaned in and pressed a kiss on her stomach. “Be a boy,” he mumbled.
She placed her hand over her stomach. “Be healthy…and sane.” She added the sanity request because she had seen enough insanity in her world lately to know that it seemed to run in her bloodline.
“That too,” he added. “But be a boy. Otherwise I’m going to have to keep getting her pregnant until we have one. You see, I promised her a boy. And well, even if it takes us twenty tries, we’re going to have a boy.”
“No we’re not,” she shrieked. “There is no way in this world I am going to get pregnant and have babies twenty times.” He shrugged. “Then you might want to tell it to be a boy.” Capri Montgomery 187
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Her eyes widened. As much sex as they had she didn’t doubt that he could get her pregnant twenty times. “Be a boy,” she agreed. “And you,” she pointed to Sully’s chest, “you either get some condoms or get a vasectomy.”
He laughed so hard and so loud she thought he might wake the whole house.
“Be quiet.” She hit him on his shoulder. “Teagan doesn’t know you snuck into my room last night, so don’t send out the newswire with your laughter.”
He quieted his voice, but his shoulders still shook with his barely controlled laughter.
She shook her head. “Get your pants on and get back to your own room,” she snapped.
“Ah, babe, don’t be angry.”
“Twenty times,” she huffed. “If you get me pregnant twenty times I’m going to find somebody to put a whammy on that thing,” she pointed to his penis.
He fell over on his back; laughing so hard tears were popping out of his eyes.
“You laugh now, but you won’t when you can’t use it.” Her threat was obviously lost on him because his laughter grew.
She pulled her sundress over her body. She was not going to stay in that room with him snickering about something she took very seriously.
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Twenty babies? The man was out of his mind crazy. What scared her most was the fact that he probably could get her pregnant that much.
The soft knock on the door told her Sully had definitely awakened somebody with all that boisterous laughing he was doing.
“What’s going on in there,” She heard his mother’s voice on the other side of the door. She opened it.
“Your son is crazy,” she said hurriedly. “He’s talking about me having twenty babies if this one isn’t a boy.”
“This one?” Maureen’s eyes widened as she looked between the two of them. Sully was still too busy laughing to carry on a conversation.
Alaina covered her mouth. Well she had just let the cat out of the bag; she might as well officially announce it. “I just took the test this morning, and it’s positive.”
“Yes,” she slapped her hands together and did a happy dance. “I have been hoping for another child in this house for years. Of course you both know I’ll be going back to my cottage on the outskirts of the property when you get married, but I’ll gladly help you with the children.”
“Thanks,” Alaina smiled.
“So, twenty babies huh…he thinks that’s funny?”
“No, I told him I would have somebody put a whammy on him if he even tried it. That’s what he’s laughing so hard about.”
“Oh. I see. Well if you’re serious about it I do have a friend down in the bayous in Louisiana who will gladly put a whammy on it for you.”
“Will it work?” Alaina cut Sully a look.
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“It worked for his father.”
Sully stopped laughing abruptly. “Mom!”
“Hey, I only wanted one child, and after you that was it. I told your father that and then he started talking about six more…well, a woman has to do what a woman has to do. Your father was too good in bed to resist. I wanted him to still be able to use it, but I didn’t want six kids because of it.”
Alaina laughed. “Oh yeah, we are going to be such great friends.” She wrapped her arm in Maureen’s arm. “Now let’s go talk about that friend of yours.”
She heard Sully protest as she closed the door behind them. She couldn’t help but laugh herself. This was going to be her family. Were they all crazy? Yes, but crazy in a good way, crazy fun, crazy in love, crazy loyal…and that was a heck of a lot better than the crazy her family had possessed.
Teagan ran out of her room. “Where’s dad? I thought I heard him.”
“He’s in Alaina’s room.”
“Maureen!”
“Oh please. She’s six, not four. She knew the two of you were making whoopee the moment you pulled up in the driveway. Smart girl that one,” she laughed. “Go brush your teeth and then come down stairs for breakfast, Teagan. Let your father pull himself together a little more.” Alaina blushed as she watched Teagan scurry back to her room.
“Did you know too?”
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“I knew before the two of you left here that you’d end up in the sack together. I had a feeling you’d end up married someday too. My feelings are always right.”
“Always?”
“Always. Haven’t missed one yet.”
“Then what’s your feeling about this one?” She placed her hand over her stomach. “Boy or girl?”
Maureen eyed her cautiously. “Girl,” she nodded. “Definitely a girl.”
She smiled. “Well that’s fine too. I hoped we could have a little boy, but who cares as long as the baby is healthy it doesn’t matter what the gender is.”
“Good to know, because I have a feeling the next one will be a girl too.”
“Next one?”
“Third time will be the charm for you.”
“Third?”
“So, do you still want that whammy?”
Alaina laughed. “Third?
” She hadn’t envisioned giving birth three times. She could only hope Maureen’s feeling would be wrong for once.
Of course, she and Sully could have a lot of fun making three babies—a lot of fun indeed.
“I’ll have to get back to you on that one,” she laughed. “A little girl…I guess we better start thinking of girl names too…just in case.” Capri Montgomery 191
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“Just in case,” Maureen smiled. “I’m going to put in my vote for Windsor. It’s perfect for a girl or a boy.” She wasn’t so sure Sully would be happy about that, but it surely would be a fun suggestion to make. “Windsor,” she smiled. “I’ll mention it to Sully,” she giggled. She could just see his reaction now.
“You’ll mention what to me?” Sully walked into the kitchen, took a coffee cup down and then poured himself a cup of coffee. Neither of them had heard him come down the stairs.
“Your mother just thought of a great name for the baby if it’s a girl.”
“It will be,” she confirmed.
“Mother’s always right about these things,” he nodded. “So what’s the name?”
“Windsor,” Alaina let the excitement come across in her tone.
“Oh, hell,” he moaned and both women started laughing just as hard as he had been earlier. One of these days Alaina was sure she would find out what the issue with the name Windsor was. Why did his mother like it so much, and why did he hate it so much? For now, she was just going to settle on having a little fun with his mom at his expense.
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Capri Montgomery
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