The WRONG Brother (Love You Forever #1) - Alexis Winter Page 0,73
It just seemed like something to do to keep my hands busy.”
I nod, wondering if she somehow knows about my pregnancy even if she doesn’t actually know. Mother’s intuition? “Well, Calvin and I just got back from Hawaii . . . and guess what?”
“What?” she asks, looking excited.
“We’re engaged!” I say, holding up my hand to show her the ring.
“Well, that’s wonderful, honey.” My mom is a lot more chill than Calvin’s mom, but get them together and they act like teenagers. “When’s the big day?”
“Late fall or early winter. We’re thinking end of November or beginning of December. Whatever the church has available.”
Her smile widens. “You’re getting married at home?”
I look at Calvin then back at her. “We both thought it would be better to go back home. You know, it’s where everything started for us.”
Calvin reaches behind me and pulls me closer, his hand rubbing up and down my back. He presses a kiss to the top of my head.
“And have the two of you thought this through? You haven’t been together for very long,” Dad points out.
“We wouldn’t have it any other way, Dad.”
Calvin and I talk to my parents a little while longer before hanging up. I lie back on the couch and place my hands on my flat tummy. I can’t wait until it starts to expand and I can actually see how much our baby is growing.
Calvin is sitting at the end of the couch and he leans over to place both of his hands on my stomach, next to mine.
“Are you happy?” he asks, looking into my eyes.
I smile and nod. “Are you?”
“Never been happier,” he replies as he works his way up my body to kiss my stomach. He keeps one hand on it and lightly lays his head next to his hand. “We can’t wait to meet you, little one,” he says to the baby.
I laugh. “I don’t think it has ears yet, Calvin.”
He shrugs. “So it might not be able to hear yet, but it can feel love. And love makes everything grow bigger and stronger.” He offers me up a smile and kisses my belly again.
The front door opens and Preston walks through. He walks right by us on the couch, heading for the kitchen. Calvin and I both hold our breath, hoping he doesn’t realize what we’re doing.
Preston doesn’t make it to the fridge though. He stops dead in his tracks and walks backward until he can clearly see the two of us. He pulls his brows together and squints at us. “What are you doing?”
“Just relaxing,” I answer.
“Not you,” he says to me as he turns his head a little more toward Calvin. “You. What are you doing?”
Calvin looks like a deer in the headlights. He’s between my legs with his head at my stomach. “I . . . was about to go down on her. Why else would I be here?”
My face heats up and nearly burns from embarrassment. I smack Calvin’s arm and he sits up. “What?” he asks, giving me that look that says, I panicked and didn’t want to tell him the truth.
Preston gives us his side eye but lets it go as he heads into the kitchen.
“Why would you say that?” I whisper at Calvin now that we have a few seconds alone.
He shrugs. “I panicked. I couldn’t exactly tell him the truth.”
Preston is back with three beers. He hands one to Calvin and one to me. I look at the bottle in my hands and set it on the coffee table.
“What’s wrong?” Preston asks, noticing I didn’t open my beer.
“I just don’t feel good. I’m tired and have to work in the morning. You two go ahead.”
“It’s just one beer, Pipes. I highly doubt one beer is going to give you a hangover,” Preston tries.
I shrug. “I drank way too much on our little vacation. I’m just not feeling it tonight. What are you doing here? I figured you’d be sick of us by now.”
He smiles but takes a sip of his beer to cover it up. “I missed you guys. Tell me what you did in Hawaii. Did you go parasailing like we talked about?”
“No,” Calvin and I both say together.
“Well, did you do the rock climbing?”
“No,” we both say in unison again.
“Did you go on that deep cave dive I found online?” He looks so hopeful.
We both shake our heads.
Preston is now annoyed. “So, what did you do?”
I smile wide and Calvin says, “Well, we spent a lot of