His Human Surrogate (Monsters Love Curvy Girls #2) - Michele Mills Page 0,35

I’m fresh and ready for the day, with my favorite tube top on, a pair of shorts and white flip-flops this time. I walk downstairs to get some breakfast, but then I end up rushing to the restroom and throwing up in the toilet. Oh damn, morning sickness.

It’s pretty terrible, I’m on my knees, gagging up hot spit and bile. Thank gods there’s no one here to see me like this.

I’m only one month pregnant but I’m already getting all the symptoms. I feel exhausted and want to sleep in the afternoons. Heavy sleep, with drool on my pillow. And now morning sickness. The good news is that so far, I throw up once in the morning, drink some water and it goes away. I can do what I need to and eat what I want the rest of the day. And I’m fine all the way until the afternoon, when I desperately need to pass out for a long nap. Then I wake up and start my evening.

I finish washing my face and rinsing my mouth out. Then I see there’s another message from Berg. I’m continually surprised by how much this male manages to message me. Isn’t he busy saving the world or something?

Why are you throwing up every morning? Is this normal? How can that be? I want you checking in with the doctor every diurnal.

I respond, assuring him that I’m fine and this is normal for some females. And then I pause… How does he know I’m throwing up? I didn’t tell him, did I? Well, I must have. How else would he know? Maybe Aegir told him? He gets messages to his brother too sometimes… That must be it.

I want to know more details. Your messages have turned short. Why is that?

I’m confused. I’m doing exactly what he’d asked, I’m updating him on my health and the baby’s progress.

I want you to tell me more about yourself. I want to know Chloe Chang better.

He does? Since when?

Remember, we are friends.

Oh yeah, friends. I take a deep breath and remind myself that we started out that way, as good friends. He’s my friend, like Riley is my friend. Except I wish that Berg was so much more. Maybe he doesn’t like the idea of having a human as his bound? He’s holding out for his Hyrrokin bound?

I still don’t entirely understand why he felt he needed to have a surrogate “grow” him an offspring instead of having a Hyrrokin as his bound. He could literally have anyone. I’m often reminded of the fact that he’s a highly eligible bachelor. Every time I go to the fertility med lab the females continue to ask about him.

I set the tablet aside and start programming the food dispenser to make human pancakes.

I glance out the window, deep in thought.

Maybe I’m the one being a bitch here? I’m denying Berg true friendship just because I want more from him than he’s able to give. Didn’t I already vow to myself that I’d be his friend, no matter what?

Ugh. This pregnancy is so totally messing with my head.

I decide to wait to respond to him later, when I’ve had more time to think everything through and maybe I’m less bitchy about my lack of sex and in a friendlier mood.

The food dispenser dings, and I take out my gorgeous pancakes with melted butter and syrup. I sit at the kitchen table and use the tablet to look up other pregnant Hyrrokin moms while I eat. I’ve been following a couple of vid channels about pregnancy that I find interesting, and I like reading all about stages of pregnancy too. I actually do this a lot. There’s always something new to learn.

I can’t ask Riley for tips on carrying a Hyrrokin baby because she’s not pregnant yet, her two babies are Aegir’s biological children and were adopted by her. She and Aegir want more offspring, it just hasn’t happened yet. Aegir loudly tells all who will listen that he wants her swollen with his child now. But my friend is secretly happy it hasn’t happened yet because she has her hands full with the twins.

I finish eating, put down the tablet and stare off into the middle distance again, daydreaming about, who else? Berg, of course.

It’s so hard for me to navigate what our actual relationship is. We’re friends. Or is he my boss and I’m just his employee? His surrogate and his house sitter? I’ve been trying to only send him