“Fuck me!” Alec whispered.
I looked at Nico who was looking around the room, and after a few seconds it clicked in his mind what we were all talking about.
“Kane is the father?” he asked, his eyes wide with shock.
I nodded. “Kane is the father.”
“Is Kane really the father?” Bronagh asked.
“Yes, Kane is really the father,” I said, shaking my head.
“I feel like we’re in an episode of Maury,” Alec murmured to himself.
I snickered as I looked around the room, then finally to Kane who was still staring down at the ultrasound pictures in his hands.
“Are you okay?” I asked him.
“I’m going to be a father.” It wasn’t a question. It was a statement.
I stepped closer to him. “Is that okay?”
He looked up at me, his eyes shining. “Are you kidding? Of course it’s okay! I’m going to be a father!”
The relief that filled me was instant and warm. I burst into laughter when Kane surged forward, wrapped his arms around me and lifted me up then spun me around. I held onto him when he stopped spinning me and groaned a little.
“I’m nauseous all the time; don’t do that again,” I said and held my hand over my mouth just in case I suddenly vomited.
“Shit, sorry,” Kane rushed out and pressed his hand on my back.
When nothing happened I removed my hand from my mouth and waved him off. “I’m good.”
“I can’t believe this,” Bronagh said when she came over to look at the ultrasound photos.
I couldn’t believe it, either. I wasn’t expecting Kane to take the news so... well.
“We’re going to be uncles!” Alec shouted and dived on Keela, kissing her face and hugging her with so much force I think he cut off her air supply.
I smiled and watched the brothers embrace their girlfriends, then moved on to Kane who was back to staring at the ultrasound pictures in his hand. He looked up when they approached him and smiled as he began to walk backwards. He yelped then jumped a little when they grabbed hold of him and then burst into laughter when they started to hit him. He grunted here and there, but his laughter was vibrant and loud.
“You told me you haven’t had sex in six months. You said the girl who came from your room three months ago fell asleep before any fucking could happen. You lying jackass!” Nico said as he jumped on Kane’s back.
I jumped back and laughed when Ryder socked Kane in the stomach. “You told me you didn’t like Aideen in that way. You fucking bullshitter.”
Alec then tripped him up and laughed as Kane fell and took Nico down with him. “And you told me that you didn’t like her at all. You fucking liar!”
I snorted as each of the brothers called Kane out on his pile of lies by piling on top of him.
They only got off him when he tapped his hand on the floor in submission to their attack. He stayed on the floor, groaned in pain, and yelped like a little girl when Alec kicked his leg.
“That’s not necessary!” he snapped but made no move to get up off the floor.
Alec stuck his middle finger up. “You lied to us so you deserve all the hits you get and you’ll take them like a man or we’ll beat the shit out of you.”
I shook my head.
Brothers.
“You won’t hurt him,” I intervened, “because he is still ill, remember?”
Kane got up to his feet and moved over to me where he stood behind me. “Yeah, I have diabetes, you bastards.”
“He is smiling, Ado,” Nico growled. “He is just using his diabetes as an excuse to get out of an ass whooping for lying to us.”
I gasped and turned, “You wouldn’t!”
Kane held up his hands as he looked down at me. “Of course, I wouldn’t. You think I’d make a joke out of my diabetes? Aideen, it’s not something you play around with. It’s very serious.”
Exactly.
“You’re right, sorry.” I turned around and glared at the brothers. “Diabetes isn’t a joke.”
“Yeah,” Kane said from behind me.
Alec growled, “He is sticking his finger up at us right now.”
Kane placed his hands on my shoulders. “They’re lying; you can’t trust them, Aideen.”
I groaned, “I haven’t even had me child yet and already I’m separatin’ the good child from the bad ones.”
Nico gasped, “If one of us is the good one, it’s me or Damien—Kane is a bastard.”
“Hey!” I snapped. “No name callin’.”
Branna burst into laughter. “And so it begins.”
I groaned and placed my face in my hands and ignored everyone when they started laughing at me. Kane wrapped his arms around my chest from behind and pressed his head into mine. The bastard was laughing too.
I was fighting off a smile when he turned me in his arms and leaned down pressing his forehead against mine. “This means we have to start liking each other... at least enough not to kill the other person anyway.”