Just Good Friends (Cheap Thrills #5) - Mary B. Moore Page 0,88

of my sweats, Tamsin pulled me to the side of the bed. “You will cut the umbilical cord, hold our baby, and stop being a pussy. Do I make myself clear?”

Moving over to where the guy was holding out a pair of scissors, I checked with the nurse, “Are you going to wipe more of the gunk off it?”

I had a new car, and if it was covered in gunk, I was going to need to put protective sheeting down when we took it home.

“Yes, we’ll clean baby for you, then you can give him a bath when his momma’s ready for it.”

Turning back to the crime scene in front of me, I did my best not to look at where the cord was still attached, but it was fucking hard. I’d had a mental image of me being this strong, alpha man when Tamsin gave birth, the guy who saved the day by getting her through it better than any other father in history. Instead, I was looking at the car crash that used to be my poor, beautiful wife’s vagina, with a bungee cord that attached it to my kid who was covered in crap, trying not to lose my mind.

With a shaky hand, I opened the scissors and moved them to where the doctor was pointing. “Just cut between the two clips here.”

“What happens to the part that’s attached to Tamsin? Does it spring back inside her?”

The doctor chuckled and waved at me to do what I was delaying. “No, the placenta will come out of her with the cord attached, don’t worry.”

Easy for him to say. My wife had a bungee dick, and I was cutting it.

Squeezing down on the scissors, I felt the resistance of whatever the cord was made of. “Holy shit, do they melt down tires to make this?”

It felt like I was using the scissors to saw through it, and then when I was halfway through, my kid started screaming its head off, making me drop them. I swear this was worse than what she’d just been through. Women had no clue what it was like watching it all and then cutting this shit.

Finally, I got all the way through, then bent over, and dry heaved. I’d done so well, but it was happening again. I could face crime scenes and gore, but apparently, for everything else, my stomach was weak.

“You did good, Daddy. Now let’s go and take the baby over there, and you can tell Momma what you’ve got.”

Rubbing my face with both hands, I moved over to where two nurses were smiling and waiting for me. Slowly, they both peeled back the corners of the blanket, and I felt like the biggest freak in the world, focusing on my baby’s crotch and not its face.

The kid had a penis, and fuck me angry looking balls.

“What happened to his nuts? Why do they look so mad?”

“That’s just how they are, Garrett. It’ll settle down, don’t worry.”

Tamsin had been talking to the doctor about something, so she hadn’t heard the news.

“Pretty girl, we’ve got a boy with really pissed off balls.”

The smile that appeared on her face could only be described as pure bliss, and everything we’d gone through over the last seventeen hours faded away. I’m not saying that my own dick had come back out of its hidey-hole, but it was definitely one of the most beautiful moments of my life.

I even managed to carry him over to her without dropping him and then pass him over like I knew what the fuck I was doing.

That was until the top of the blanket covering him dropped down, and I saw some of the cream cheese and jelly shit on it. That’s when my stomach rebelled violently, just as our family came in to meet him, seeing as how his momma’s vagina was back under a sheet now, and she no longer had a rope hanging out of her.

It turns out that Hudson Evans weighed nine pounds and ten ounces. He might have been big, but every inch of him was perfection and stole my heart. A couple of hours later, when I changed my first diaper, I lifted the front flap and checked to see if his nuts had calmed down yet as I got ready to pull it out from under him. This I could do no problem now, seeing as how I’d changed Raoul’s twins often enough, but my kid just had to be different.

See, as soon as I bent down over him to tell him it was going to be okay as he screamed, all of the pee that he had stored up since the last time he went came spraying out of him, right in my face. Yeah, his mom caught it on video, so that started making the rounds online, too.

Instead of freaking out, though, I leaned over him and gave him my heart. “You know, your mommy and me have an issue with babies and animals pooping around us, but if they hadn’t done it, we might not have fallen in love—”

“Yeah, we would have,” Tamsin rasped from her bed, watching me sleepily.

With Hudson’s feet in my hands and my eyes on his mom, I murmured, “Yeah, we would have. She’s my heart, and she’s given me my world—you.”

About the Author

I’m a British author who grew up all over the world. My parents were diplomats, so we were posted to all of the corners of the earth and it was a blast. Some wouldn’t seem so awesome if you heard about them, but my parents always made it a fun experience and it molded my brother and I into who we are today.

I live in Wiltshire in the west country of the UK. At random times of the day, I’ll hear a moo from the fields around me, or get a whiff of that…uhhh…’country air’, and I love it! I might not have grown up in the UK, but I’m a British girl to the bone (regardless of the suspicious whiffs coming in from the fields).

I’m a single mother with a son who is nearing his teenage phase. Maybe he’s reached it early? Who knows. But he’s awesome and has a personality and sense of humor that I can only attribute to my family. We’re slightly bonkers, we have a wicked sense of humor and we find the positives in every situation. I’m so proud to be his mum and to watch him grow and mature.

Writing was something that I’d always done. I had a teacher in the third grade who always set us the task of writing a story and making it into a book every weekend. After I left school, I kept this up and wrote as often as I could or just plotted out books. This evolved into me taking the plunge and publishing my first book in 2016 and I’ve been typing ever since.

I’m proud to be an Indie Author, and I absolutely love writing out my crazy Providence characters and the more complex ones in my other series’. It doesn’t matter if it’s romantic comedy or something with more suspense – so log as it has a HEA I’ll do it!

I’ve got so many more planned.

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Providence Series

Forever Mine – Ren & Maya

More Than Forever – Luka & Isla

Until Forever – Cole & Ebru

My Forever – Cole & Ebru pt 2

Choosing Forever – Brett & Sabine

Until Tom, Finding Forever – Tom & Sonya

Forever Ducked – All of the crazies

Bound to Me Forever – Adam & Scarlett

Providence Gold

Until Fools Find Gold – Noah & Luna

Mad Gold – Madix & Dahlia

Tainted Gold- Tate & Lilith

Going For Gold – Levi & Charlotte

Forbidden Gold – Parker & Ariana

Family Ties

Great Sass—Elijah & Sadie

Cheap Thrills Series

Fireball – DB & Tabby

Living On A Dare – Ellis & Jose

Classy AF – Raul & Rose

Talk Flirty To Me – Jarrod & Katy

Covent Garden Series

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Valiant

Compass

Doughty

Force Projection

Quick Snap Novella

Out Of Bounds

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