Irresistible (Neighbor from Hell #11) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,42

something that had him praying that his cousin took pity on him and cut the bullshit so that he could go see her.

“You’re overreacting,” Haley said, still not bothering to look up from her Kindle.

“Maybe we should let the doctor decide that.”

“Maybe you should tell me what’s going on,” Aidan countered, knowing that this could go on for a while.

“Happily,” Jason said with a glare at his wife before shifting his attention back to Aidan. “She’s pregnant and refuses to listen to reason,” Jason said, taking Aidan by surprise.

“You’re pregnant?” Aidan asked, glancing back at Haley to find her smiling that same smile that Melanie wore when she told him that they were having a boy. That smile told him everything that he needed to know. Melanie already loved their son and would do whatever it took to keep him happy and safe, which he was counting on.

“Yes, which means that she should be taking it easy and keeping her dirty little hands off me!”

“Did your doctor tell you to go on bed rest?” Aidan asked, glancing back at Jason to find the large bastard glaring at him.

“I don’t fucking care what he said. She should be resting,” Jason bit out.

“I see,” Aidan murmured as he glanced back at the cute little thing that had somehow managed to put up with his cousin’s bullshit for the last fifteen years and asked, “Are you having any problems?”

“Just him,” Haley said, gesturing lazily towards the man gasping in outrage.

“I’m the love of your life!”

“Well, I won’t really know that until my second husband,” she pointed out with a shrug and a sympathetic wince that had Aidan biting back a smile.

“Like you’d ever leave me.”

“At least, not without a backup plan,” Haley mumbled thoughtfully with another shrug.

“Oh, my god,” Jason said, shaking his head in disgust. “That’s been your plan all along, hasn’t it? You were just using me for my body!”

“Pretty much,” Haley said as a text alerted him to the fact that his reprieve was finally over.

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“There’s no pleasing that woman!” his cousin Theo snapped as he stumbled out of Melanie’s room, struggling to pull his shirt on as Aidan stood there, wondering why his family was here.

Dropping his bag by the door, he took in his siblings and cousins sitting around Melanie’s apartment, the bags of food from the Fire & Brimstone and Dixon’s Bakery, and catering pans filled with food covering every available surface and found himself focusing back on Theo, who was now pouting in the corner with a plate of food in his hands.

Curious, Aidan headed towards the bedroom, ignoring Lucifer’s mumbled, “This just isn’t going to work for me,” as he walked past the nursery, the glares that his family was sending him, and found himself wondering why his brothers were in bed with Melanie. Actually, what he was wondering was why Danny was half-naked in bed with Melanie in his arms.

“You know who we should call?” Kasey asked from where she was curled up in her husband’s arms next to the bastard that Aidan was going to kill.

“Roger,” Zoe, who was sitting on the floor between Trevor’s legs, said.

“God, can that man snuggle,” Kasey said with a dreamy sigh that had her husband glaring down at her.

“He really can,” Necie said, nodding in agreement as Aidan shifted his glare to Melanie and realized that she was struggling to get comfortable and looked beyond fucking exhausted.

“Get out,” Aidan said, already reaching for his tie as he toed off his shoes.

Danny opened his mouth to say something but saw the murderous expression on Aidan’s face and decided to keep his mouth shut while he carefully climbed out from behind Melanie. Before her back hit the pillows, Aidan was there, climbing in behind her and wrapping his arms around her.

“Looks like the Bradford curse is in full effect,” Danny said, sending him a wink as he grabbed his shirt off the chair and pulled it back on before helping his wife to her feet.

“The curse is bullshit,” Aidan said, even as he continued to glare at the bastard.

“Then how do you explain that?” Danny asked, gesturing towards Melanie, who was already sound asleep because the men in his family believed in bullshit tales passed down from generation to generation meant to fuck with their heads.

“She’s exhausted,” Aidan said, in no fucking mood to deal with his family’s bullshit beliefs today.

While most of the men in his family believed in this happily ever after bullshit…it just wasn’t for him.