Page 100 of Rockstar Baby

Keeping this from August would have been impossible. Hiding a pregnancy test was ridiculous. As if I wasn’t going to tell my big brother. Not like I’d be able to hide it much longer anyway.

Did I mention flowing shirts for the win? Guess I wasn’t far off on that one.

August got to his feet and tugged on one of my braids. “Tell him.”

“I will.”

He narrowed his gaze at me.

“Soon. I just need some time.”

He nodded. “Get some rest. Your partner in crime is snoring on the couch.”

I laughed. “Yeah, she took me to get the test.”

His gaze was unreadable, but he gave me a small smile. “Are you all right?”

“I will be.”

“Good enough. But you have to tell mom.”

I swallowed a groan. Barely. “Yeah, I’ll need a day or so to get ready for that.”

“You and me both. Night, brat.”

“Night.”

I waited until he closed the door, then slid my hand over my barely there curve of a belly. “Just you and me.”

At least for now.

Eighteen

June

“You knowI can’t do it without you.”

I rolled my eyes and kicked my feet up next to the mixing board in my bare bones home studio. “You can and you have until this point.”

“That is a lie. You helped me with my first EP. Don’t you recall working with me and Flynn? Hijinks in the woods in Tennessee. So many woods.” I imagined Ian shuddering.

Like me, my mate wasn’t the biggest fan of bonding with nature. Although I’d gotten much closer to nature than I’d ever anticipated that night with Ivy…

A night on constant replay in my head, much to my consternation. It was over a month now since I’d seen her. Even that long had been torture. Going beyond it would test me.

It already was.

Sure, we’d texted a few times. Some nights more than a few. I was usually flying across the damn country and living out of my luggage and her long hours at the diner and working on her truck seemed to leave us at cross purposes. But an emoji from her could brighten my whole day.

Once or twice, I’d weakened and nearly called her. Yet I knew I couldn’t open that box. It wouldn’t make the distance easier. Just the opposite. And I’d made her promise to call me if she found someone else, so maybe she figured I’d do the same.

I didn’t want to rock the boat. It was already damn close to capsizing.

With a sigh, I checked back into the conversation with Ian. “I do recall. I also remember you learning to enjoy those woods. You were up fishing every morning.”

“It was nice being out there on the water. A good way to clear my head. Also, I drank a liquid breakfast, so there was that.”

“I imagine a liquid breakfast makes most things better.”