Lucky Forever - Cee Bowerman Page 0,71
audience out here and I’d rather be in our bed on top of you the next time I come.”
I glanced to the side and down the main aisle of the barn to see that all nine of our horses had their heads peeking out of their doors and they were watching us intently.
“Perverts,” I admonished the mares with a laugh. Janis, the newest rescue mare that had been so crazy when she came to us, whinnied at me loudly.
“Let’s shut everything off and head to our room.”
“I’m right behind you, baby.”
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“So I’m not pregnant?” Sierra asked her doctor. Her hand was clutching mine and I could tell that she was near tears. “Then what’s wrong with me?”
“Your blood work shows that your hormones are a little off and that might be due to the new prescription we tried this last time,” the doctor told her solemnly. “But as far as I can tell right now, there’s nothing wrong with you, Mrs. Lincoln.”
“Oh, okay,” Sierra whispered as she swiped a tear as it started down her cheek.
“I take it from your reaction that you want to be?”
“I think so,” Sierra glanced at me and I nodded. She smiled brightly at her doctor and confirmed, “Yes. I want to get pregnant.”
“Well, then that’s an entirely different conversation… ,” the doctor said as he turned and picked up Sierra's chart.
I let the doctor’s voice fade into the background as I watched Sierra’s face. Her tears were gone now and had been replaced by a hopeful smile.
We were going to have a baby, just not quite yet.
~*~
ROWDY
Sierra had been off her birth control for a little over three months now and I knew that she was getting antsy waiting for the day she found out for sure she was pregnant. Her hormones had been out of control for the first few weeks after her doctor’s appointment and the girls and I spent a lot of time in the barn together.
It was hard being away from Sierra so much, but it seemed like all we did was argue so I felt like it was better for all of us to stay away. Lexi and Leia ran into the same problem with Sierra a few times and that’s when they started coming out to the barn more and more. Even though I missed being with Sierra, I enjoyed my time with the girls and had fun teaching them new things.
“We should head out if we’re going today,” I told Sierra. I watched her stop pacing and look at me. “Unless you want to go to the next one.”
“No, let’s do this today. No sense putting it off again. Both of us are ready and Reagan has already agreed to pick up the girls and take them to school.”
“How soon before we get the results?”
“We should have them within minutes,” Sierra assured me.
“I’m nervous,” I laughed as I opened the door for her. “Are you?”
“I’m terrified.”
The drive downtown was short and neither of us said much, both absorbed in our own thoughts. When I parked the truck, I reached over and took her hand.
“If something goes wrong, we can just try again.”
“I know,” Sierra smiled. “We’ve got this, Mr. Lincoln.”
“Yes, ma’am. We sure as hell do.”
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Sierra and I were both laughing when we walked through the big metal doors and out into the sunshine. I spun her around and picked her up in my arms, twirling her around a few times just so I could hear her laugh.
“Do you feel better?” I asked her.
“Yes,” she admitted. “I honestly never thought I’d make it. I was so nervous.”
“Me, too,”
“I take it from the uncontrollable smiles and the twirling and shit that the two of you passed?” I heard Marcus yell. I put Sierra on her feet and we both turned toward Marcus’s voice.
Walking across the grass toward us was a group of our friends. Reagan held a bouquet of flowers and I saw that Marcus was carrying a bottle of his good whiskey. Our daughters walked between them and they were both smiling from ear to ear.
“Congratulations, Dad,” Leia yelled as she jumped into my arms. “You did it!”
“We did it!” I smiled at my little girl, proud of myself for once in my life. “You girls helped us study our asses off. I bet you two could go in there and ace that test right now.”
Lexi was arm in arm with Leia and both of them were smiling. Marcus shook my hand and gave me the unopened