Save the Date (Modern Arrangements, #1)

"Lilli, I can handle those babies. Don’t worry about me." She waved off my concern.

"I have to worry about it, you will have four young children to deal with." I sighed. "I can’t expect you to take care of them all daily without any assistance. I’ve already placed a call to the agency and would like for you to meet the applicants with me. Please?"

She nodded and smiled. "I would gladly meet with them, but I still think that…"

I cut her off. "You have your own child to worry about, as well. I really think that some help is necessary." I patted her knee.

We concluded our conversation and headed to check on the children, who should have been waking from their naps.

Hours later, I was resting in bed. Being almost eight months pregnant had me exhausted by three o’clock each day. I lay in bed thinking about Aidan, the twins, Loreley, Gideon, Cole, and the new little one that had yet to make his or her appearance into our world.

Rubbing my stomach, I thought back on the day that I found out that I was pregnant. I knew that I had felt tired and nauseated, but my birth control shot was only a month passed its renewal appointment. I was sure that it would take a couple of months to conceive like the doctor had said it would. We had expected months of ‘practicing’, my body decided differently.

I was about two months late when I realized all of my symptoms. Since my doctor had told me that my periods would become slightly erratic until it found a natural rhythm, I didn’t think anything of it, at first. Once I started putting two and two together, I called the office and made an appointment for blood work.

Of course I had kept Aidan in the loop about it all, but that didn’t mean I was any less surprised when he showed up in late afternoon from work with a plastic white bag.

"Hey." I smiled as I put my book down.

Aidan walked to me quickly and kissed me passionately. When he pulled back there was a large smile on his face.

"I missed you, too." I giggled.

"Here." He handed me a large bottle of water.

"Um…thanks?" I said, confused.

Then he shoved the white plastic bag into my lap. "What in the world is in..?" I opened the bag and couldn’t finish my sentence.

"I couldn’t wait." I looked up to his bright white teeth gleaming from behind his lips as he opened the bottle of water.

"Aidan, my appointment is in two days. You couldn’t wait—?"

He was already shaking his head. "No, so get to the bathroom." He reached into the bag and pulled out one pregnancy test box.

"How many did you buy?" I laughed.

"There were so many." He chuckled. "I just grabbed the five most expensive." He shrugged.

"Okay, well this one." I held up the box, "is an ovulation test kit, so we don’t need that one." I laughed.

"You have four tests now, get to it." He pulled me to stand up off the lounge chair.

"These are all double packs" I looked at him like he was insane. "I am not taking eight tests." I headed toward the bathroom.

"You’ll take as many as you can pee on!" He laughed out as he caught up to me.

"Are you going to watch?" I asked sarcastically.

"If you’d let me—"

"Ewww! No!" I shut bathroom door in his face and heard him laugh.

"Hurry up!"

"Quit pressuring me or I won’t be able to!" I shouted back as I began the first test.

After opening the door, he shoved in three more opened tests and the bottle of water. I laughed at him. "You’re such a loser."

"But you love this loser!" He shouted back as I finished the other three tests. "And…"

I opened the bathroom door and looked at him, waiting for him to finish. "And, what?"

"And, you are having my baby!" He practically shouted and jumped with his fist in the air.

"Seriously, did you just fist pump the air?" I laughed and leaned against the doorframe for support.

He grabbed me around my waist and lifted me up off my feet, spinning us in a circle.

"I love you, Lillian Iverson, so fucking much!"

"Aidan, I’m going to puke if you don’t stop spinning." I covered my mouth.

"Oh, shit! Sorry!" He sat me down on the lounge chair.

Once he had grabbed all four tests, he settled on the floor, his back against the lounge chair, between my knees, with my legs over his shoulder. As his head rested on my right thigh I ran my fingers through his hair and he sighed.

"All four are positive." He practically sang the words.

"I think the one that says pregnant across it would have sufficed without the other ones." I giggled.

He quickly turned around to face me while his knees were on the carpet. "I like to be thorough." He grinned as he leaned in and grabbed my t-shirt.

Pulling me toward him, his lips crashed to mine and my fingers immediately found his soft locks. He moaned into my mouth and pulled me to the edge of the chair.

I could feel his arousal right at my center as he pressed his hips into me. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he pulled my shirt over my head.

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