Bittersweet (Redemption #3) - Jessica Prince Page 0,69
of the money again. For all I cared, he could have pulled out every single dollar, piled it high, and lit it on fire, and I would have been standing right there beside him with a can of gasoline in my hands.
“Baby? You here?”
I sat frozen in place of the edge of the bathtub, staring in shock at the two little pink lines on the plastic stick in my hands.
Everything had been going so well. We had plans. Big plans that we were both excited about, and this had definitely not been a part of them.
The bathroom door opened a second later and Jensen filled the doorway. “Shane? You okay?” He moved fast, stepping in front of me and squatting down as we were at eye level. “What’s goin’ on? Are you sick?”
I kept my head down as I gave it a shake, unable to find the words.
He pressed beneath my chin, tipping my head back so I could see his deep gray eyes were filled with concern. “Talk to me, baby. What’s going on? You’re kind of freaking me out here.”
A sob caught in my throat as I lifted the white stick with its bright pink cap I was holding. “I-I’m p-pregnant.”
He looked from the pregnancy test to me and back again. “You’re pregnant?”
“Yes.”
“With a baby?”
“No, Jensen, with a cyborg. Yes with a baby!” I shouted sarcastically through a deluge of tears.
“But . . . how?”
“Oh my God!” I started to cry harder. “I don’t have it in me to give you a biology lesson on the fundamentals of how a baby is made right now, okay? I’m too busy freaking the fuck out!”
He stared at the pregnancy test like he was waiting for the stick to grow legs and scurry off into a dark corner. “You’re having a baby,” he said in a quiet, mesmerized voice, then repeated louder, “You’re having my baby.” A second later he was on his feet, his hands hooking me under my arms and pulling me off the edge of the tub. Before I knew what was happening, I was off the ground and he was spinning me in a wild circle in the middle of our tiny bathroom. “You’re having my baby!”
I placed my hands on his shoulders for balance when he stopped spinning. “Wait . . . you’re happy about this?”
“Are you kidding? Sunshine, I’m fucking thrilled.” He put me on my feet and took my cheeks in both his hands. “No better gift you could give me in my life than the kid we made together. Only thing better than having you is having two of you. This is the best news I’ve ever gotten.”
“But . . .” I pulled my bottom lip between my teeth and bit down. “We had all these plans for the future. And we’re still so young—”
“We’ll adjust our plans, Shane. So it’s not gonna go in the exact order we thought, so what? Life has a way of throwing curveballs sometimes. And I don’t give a shit if anyone thinks we’re too young. I’ve known from the moment I laid eyes on you that you were it for me. I thought the best thing that ever happened to me was the day my parents packed me up and shipped my ass to a boarding school across the country. At least then I wouldn’t have to see their faces. But I was wrong. Best thing that ever happened to me came after I got myself kicked out for fighting at the beginning of the year, ’cause I came home and found this girl, all light and beauty and goodness, standing in the middle of my bedroom.”
He reached down and laid a palm flat against my belly. “Now I have something that comes in at a close second. You’re my family, Shane, you and this baby we made together. Never loved a single person in my life until you. Never. You’re all I’ll ever need, and now I get that times two.”
The tears were still flowing down my face, only now they were tears of joy. “We’re having a baby,” I whispered, and Jensen’s excitement started to fill me up. “We’re having a baby!”
He picked me up and spun me around again as we laughed and kissed like crazy. Then I did what I’d been doing for the past several days, thinking I had some kind of bug before I bit the bullet and took the test. As soon as my feet touched the floor, I