“I hate your morals,” he whimpered.
I laughed. “Let me get really comfortable with being with you first. I don’t want this to just be physical.”
Kane rubbed his nose against mine. “I can wait. It will kill me, but I can do it.”
I knew he could, and it made waiting harder.
Literally.
I was in pain.
My back was sore, and I was a grouch because of it.
“Do you want a foot rub?” Kane asked me.
I rolled my eyes. “I want you to piss off and leave me alone.”
“Damn, Aideen,” he mumbled. “You’re cranky today.”
I shrugged my shoulders. “You’ll get over it.”
“You should go fuck yourself.”
I looked at Kane with raised eyebrows. “Excuse me?”
He held his hands up. “Masturbation is a proven stress reliever. If you won’t let me fuck you, then fuck yourself and calm your pregnant ass down.”
I hated that my lip quirked, and I hated that Kane, and his brothers, saw it. My brothers left my apartment hours ago; I was just left with Kane, Nico, and Alec.
“Ah ha!” He pointed at me. “I made you smile!”
I rolled my eyes. “So?”
“So!” Kane beamed. “I’m not that much of a bastard if I can make you smile.”
I forced myself not to laugh. “You are a bastard. A huge one.”
“I want to throw a lamp at you.”
“What? Why?” I asked, wide-eyed.
“Because you need to lighten the fuck up!” Kane grunted and folded his arms across his chest.
I stared at him for a moment then burst into laughter.
“What? Now you laugh?”
I laughed harder.
“I’ll never understand women, never!”
“I’m here to guide you, brother.”
“Fuck off, Dominic.”
I was wheezing so hard that I thought I might pass out.
“Stop!” I begged and fell sideways into Kane, who was laughing at me laugh.
I quickly got up and waddled out of the room and down the hallway to the toilet. I barely made it to the toilet before I relieved myself. Laughing whilst being pregnant sucked—wetting myself was always a possibility.
When I finished up in the bathroom, I headed back down to the sitting room. I passed the kitchen and saw all three of the brothers were inside making sandwiches. I didn’t feel hungry—for once—so I walked back into the sitting room and sat down.
As soon as I sat down, she woke up and it made me smile.
“Kane,” I called out.
He walked into the sitting room a few seconds later, a sandwich in his hand.
“Yeah?”
“She’s awake; ask your brothers if they want to feel her move.”
Kane smiled and walked over to me. He put his sandwich on the coffee table and kneeled before me, pushing my t-shirt up and placing his hands on my belly.
“Dominic, Alec,” he called. “Come here.”
They both walked into the room, sandwiches in their hands.
“What?” Alec asked.
“Come here, the baby is awake.”
They put their sandwiches down then flanked Kane on both sides and kneeled down next to him. Like Kane, they just stared at my stomach.
“Put a hand on her stomach,” Kane whispered, a big smile still in place on his handsome face transforming it into a thing of beauty.
Nico and Alec glanced at one another over Kane’s head, but did as told and carefully reached a hand out and hesitantly placed them on my bare stomach. I smiled at them both and moved my hands from Kane’s to theirs. I laughed when the baby gave a gigantic kick and Nico screeched a little.
“That’s definitely a boy!” he declared, proudly.
Alec nodded his head in agreement but then frowned. “Although, Ado can kick pretty hard herself. So can our girls. They can even outdo us some days... Damn, it may be a girl after all.”
I snorted, “It is a girl, I’m sure of it.”
Kane snorted but said nothing.
He beamed when both of his brothers patted him on the back.
“That’s a baby Slater in there.” Nico smiled.
Alec beamed. “The first of many! I can’t wait to make babies with Keela.”
I was in awe of the three of them.
They were some of the fiercest men I had ever met in my entire life. They had each severely harmed or killed people—so I’d heard... and yet here they were, kneeling before me and like putty in my hands, over a baby who wasn’t even here yet.
“You’re goin’ to be great uncles,” I said to Nico and Alec.
They looked up at me and smiled then leaned up and kissed my cheeks at the same time making me giggle. They refocused on feeling the baby kick. They didn’t even move when the door to my apartment opened.
“It’s me,” Keela shouted.
“And me, and Branna,” Bronagh’s voice chimed in.
I snorted.
They entered the sitting room and once they saw what the lads were doing, they shot over and leaned over the lads, placing their hands on my stomach.
“I love this,” Bronagh squealed.
I frowned. “I’m sad that me stomach is gettin’ so big all of your bloody hands fit on it now.”
Everyone laughed.