on your own. You went through pregnancy and birth all alone. I hate that I wasn’t there to help you with that. My friend’s girlfriend is pregnant right now. He makes it sound like a step above the seventh circle of hell.”
I laughed. “I don’t think it was quite that bad. There were rough days, but once Jace was here, it made it all worth it.”
“I’d like to see his baby book. I want to see every picture you have of him. I want to watch him grow up through your eyes.”
“Oh, I’m not sure you know what you are asking,” I said. “I was a bit of a lunatic in the first few months. I have a lot of pictures, but again, he isn’t grown up. There is still a lot to get through.”
“I’m going to be there for everything,” he said. “I promise I will take care of you and Jace.”
“We are doing okay,” I assured him.
“Let me do this,” he said. “I need to do something to feel like I’m helping.”
I smiled and kissed him. “Okay. We’ll work out the details.”
“What about Jace?”
“What about him?” I asked.
“Can we tell him?” he questioned. “If you don’t think it’s a good idea, I understand. I’ll wait.”
“No, I think we should. He deserves to know.”
“When?” he asked.
I could hear the eagerness in his voice. “When would you like to?”
“Tomorrow? The following day? The weekend. You say when and I will be there.”
I smiled. “Tomorrow works for me. How about you come over for dinner?”
“I’ll be there.”
Chapter 73
Nash
I sat at the bar and drank my club soda. I wanted nothing more than a stiff drink, but I couldn’t. I was not going to start my new fatherhood role as a drunk. I needed to set a good example for Jace. Showing up sloshed for dinner was not the way I wanted our first day as father and son to get started.
“All right,” Davin said. “Tell me what’s going on. I don’t know why it’s so damn busy in here today. Like I’ve got time to be serving all these customers.”
“Very funny.”
“Why are you sipping that little girl drink? You don’t want a big boy drink?”
“Not today. I need to be on my best behavior and stone-cold sober.”
“Why? Since when is that a good thing?”
“I’m telling Jace I’m his father today,” I said.
His brows shot up. “No shit?”
I nodded. “We talked and I love her.”
He reached out a hand and tried to touch my head. “What the hell are you doing?” I asked.
“Are you feverish?”
“No,” I said.
“You love her?” he asked.
“I do. She loves me. We love each other.”
He was grinning. “You’re in love.”
I shrugged. “I guess I am.”
“That’s a good thing. You’re going to be a family?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “We’re telling Jace tonight. I’m assuming he’s going to be okay with it, but I am not going to push myself on him.”
“I bet the kid is going to think he won the dad lottery,” he said with a laugh.
“I hope so. I’m not sure I’m quite dad-of-the-year material, but I’m going to try. I’m going to take him fishing and teach him how to ice skate.”
“Ice skate? That’s random.”
I laughed. “When I first moved to New York, I didn’t know how to ice skate. I’m a California boy. I wished my dad would have taught me. It would have saved me a lot of trouble and a bruised ass.”
“Ah, I understand,” he said with a laugh.
“We’ll have to get together one of these days,” he said. “We can do family friendly activities.”
“Are we really that old?” I asked.
“You are. I’m not.”
“How’s the baby-making machine?”
He rolled his eyes. “If you ever say that to her face, she will castrate you. Know this. She seems to be getting through the morning sickness. And now we are moving into hyper-sexual stage. The doctor told me about this.”
“I think that sounds like a good phase,” I said.
“You would think but having sex with your pregnant and showing girlfriend several times a day is slightly strange. I’m kind of weirded out by the baby moving inside her when I’m inside her.”
“That is weird,” I said.
“There is no way I can do it when she gets as big as a house,” I said.
“I’m not going to pretend to know about this stuff, but I’m guessing she would want to castrate you if she heard you refer to her as a house.”