Rock Wedding (Rock Kiss #4) - Nalini Singh Page 0,86

you go ever again.”

Sarah sucked in a breath, the flame of hope white-hot.

PART FOUR

CHAPTER 29

SAFELY PAST THE TWELVE-WEEK mark in her pregnancy with no signs of complications, not even any morning sickness, the baby still safe inside her, Sarah couldn’t imagine being happier. Her and Abe’s relationship made her heart hurt in the best way, Diane had become a cherished maternal figure in her life, she had a beautiful circle of friends, and her business was growing in exactly the way she wanted.

She felt like she was walking on air.

Then Abe asked her if they could tell his bandmates about the baby. Because, somewhat shockingly, she and Abe had managed to fly under the radar with the media—at least on that point. Handlebar-mustachioed Basil had gotten a payday with his reunion story, but sadly for him, it hadn’t been a big one because of a political sex scandal that had broken the same day.

That scandal had very quickly buried the news of Abe and Sarah’s reunion, and they’d done nothing to reignite that interest. Sarah had known they couldn’t keep the news of the pregnancy quiet forever, but she still wasn’t ready for Abe’s request—though, of course, he was right: it was time.

Especially since she’d already told Lola—the other woman knew Sarah well enough to have picked up the delicate changes in her face and body. A week earlier, she’d asked point-blank if Sarah was “cooking up a tiny human-shaped bun in a certain oven.” It had made Sarah laugh, admit to it.

“Yes,” she said to Abe now. “I want Molly, Kit, and Thea to know too.”

A day after that conversation, however, she fidgeted in the passenger seat of Abe’s SUV.

Abe closed his hand over her thigh, bared because she wore shorts paired with a floaty top. “Hey, you good?”

“No,” she admitted, folding her arms and slumping into the seat. “I should’ve let you announce the pregnancy without me.”

“Sarah.” Abe ran his thumb over her skin. “It’ll be easy—we can tell everyone at once at this ‘pool-warming’ of Noah and Kit’s.”

Sarah nodded. “I know.” The other couple was excited about their new pool, had invited everyone over for an inaugural swim. “Are you sure they won’t mind me being there?”

“Sweetheart, quite aside from the fact you’re friends with the women, the guys all know we’re together, even if we haven’t done a couple thing with them yet—they’ve just been giving us space by not prying.”

Abe ran his knuckles over her cheek. “Only reason you didn’t get a separate invite is because they expect us to turn up together. I think they figure we must be ready to admit our relationship by now.” A grin. “I mean, they only have so much patience—except for Thea the whole lot of them have been pretending not to have seen that photograph of our kiss for months.”

That made sense. Of course it made sense. Especially since Kit had chatted to Sarah about the pool just the other day, her words holding an expectation that Sarah would be there this weekend to see it. “I’m crazy,” she announced.

“You’re just nervous.” Pulling the SUV to a stop on the side of the quiet Pacific Palisades road, Abe turned to face her, closing his hand over her nape. “So am I.” He grinned. “Shit, I’m going to be a dad.”

Sarah released a breath she hadn’t been aware of holding. All she had to remember was that they were in this together, a unit. She wasn’t alone. “Should we plan how to tell them?”

“We’ll figure it out as we go.” Moving without warning, he kissed her with a scorching heat that made her moan in the back of her throat as her legs pressed together. Abe put his free hand on her thigh in response, sliding it high enough that she had to nudge him off before things went past the point of no return. “You are not making me naked on a public road, Abe Bellamy.”

A wicked smile, then one more kiss that melted her bones before Abe settled back into the driver’s seat. They didn’t speak again until he stopped at the gate to Noah and Kit’s large property, but he kept his hand on her thigh anytime he didn’t need it to drive. It felt great. Wonderful. The stubbornly romantic girl in her loved it.

“Kit gave me a remote for the gate,” Abe told her. “It’s in the glove compartment.”

Locating it, Sarah pushed the button to open the gate. She made sure to close it