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“Of course I want it,” Aric said, snapping his eyes to me. “It’s our baby. It’s part of us. I’m just … stunned. I thought we would have time before this happened.”
“Well, we still have nine months,” I said. “I think it’s early.”
“Wait, you drank last night,” Aric said, shifting an accusatory finger in my direction. “Did that hurt it? Is it a boy or a girl?”
“I have no idea,” I said. “It’s just an it right now. And I don’t think I hurt it. We’ll go to the doctor when we get back from the honeymoon.”
“Can you fly?”
Good grief. If I thought Aric was overprotective on a normal day, he now kicked into overdrive. “We’re going on our honeymoon,” I said. “I’m also going to ride the Loch Ness Monster. You can’t stop me.”
“I guess the good news is that you’re pretty solid,” Aric said. “You’ll be able to protect it.”
“You mean ‘solid’ as in upstanding and strong and not fat, right?”
“Don’t start that,” Aric warned, wagging a finger. “Holy crap!”
“Stop saying that!”
Aric reached for me and pulled me to him, burying his face in my hair and holding me tight. “I’m going to say it one more time,” he whispered. “Holy crap.”
“We’re going to be the worst parents ever,” I said.
“Probably,” Aric agreed, nodding.
“We’re going to get a little us,” I added. “It will probably be a little terror.”
Aric nodded again. “Probably,” he said. “I was a good kid, though. We’re going to get a miniature you. I just know it.”
“Do you still want it?”
Aric sighed, and this time when he locked gazes with me I recognized the love that usually resided there. “I already love you. Heck, I already love miniature you. It’s going to be okay. We’re going to be a family.
“Sure, it might be an odd and really loud family,” he continued. “Happiness isn’t one thing only, though, Zoe. Happiness is many things.”
“So, you’re happy?”
“I am happy,” Aric confirmed. “I have you forever. We can put up with a kid for eighteen years, even if it turns out to be a brat.”
“Ha, ha,” I intoned. “I’m really frightened.”
“I know you are,” Aric said. “I’m frightened, too. We’re going to screw up. That’s what parents do. We’ll still love Zoe or Aric, Jr. That’s also what parents do.”
“I’m so relieved,” I said. “I thought you might … I don’t know … run.”
Aric snorted. “Oh, Zoe,” he said. “If I was going to run it would’ve been the first time I saw your bedhead. This can’t make me run. This isn’t the end of anything.”
“Oh, yeah? What is it then?”
“A new adventure,” Aric said, wrapping his arm around my waist. “I’m kind of excited for it.”
“Me, too,” I admitted. “You know what else I’m excited for?”
“What?”
“I brought a big slab of that cake Pemberley got me up here,” I answered. “I still can’t believe he got me an underwater wedding cake and had it dyed eight different colors.”
Aric snorted. “Are you saying you want to start our life together with cake?”
I shrugged. “Is there any better way?”
“No, baby. There’s not.”
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