Page 50 of Call Don't Fall

“Yeah because then you’ll know I’m right and we’ll stick to one cup of coffee a day,” he said, righting Delanie’s bottle that had slipped loose from her suckling lips. “You do want another one, still, right?”

“Only if you can promise me they’ll be as cute as her,” I said, nodding down at our baby.

“Probably. At least this cute,” he said and booped her on the nose.

She shot him a dirty look but kept suckling as I climbed out of our makeshift bed in the back of the new truck, that Kirk only bought last month, to grab the pregnancy test. We hadn’t parked near any of the bathroom stations preferring quiet so that Delanie would sleep to the convenience of having them nearby. So I headed into the woods until I couldn’t see Kirk, Delanie, or anyone else and peed on the Frost forsaken stick and set the timer on my phone. Three minutes later – there they were. That damn little pixelated baby proving Kirk right.

“Love you,”he said over our mating link, his words oozing with vindication.

“Love you too. You better not know before me next time.”

“You knew! You just didn’t want to believe it.”

“We’re not leaving early.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it. Hell, if we stay long enough Dreala might fly out to check on you. She’s a full service doctor.”

“Shut up and feed the baby!”

“Love you”he said again.

“Love you forever.”