With: A.M. Madden
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Her birthday. A bar. Karaoke. And a man so hot he could melt the sun.
Sparks flew. Lust took over. For one night of her life, she felt alive.
Then she was back to her "boring" life.
Career-driven. Goal-oriented. Always planning ahead.
But nothing could have prepared her for the positive pregnancy test.
They weren't that reckless.
There goes Jade’s "boring" life.
And what happens when she tells the father?
Excerpt:
Copyright © 2020 by
A.M. Madden.
When a
firm hand clamped my shoulder, I realized Nate had plopped down on the stool
beside me. “What the hell are you doing here? Why aren’t you home in your
fortress, avoiding people who like having fun?”
“Shut it.
I needed a drink.”
“In
here?” he asked, an amused smirk on his face. “You despise this place when
there’s a game on.”
“Yeah,
well, temporary insanity.”
“So,
what’s going on with you?”
“Isn’t
that a loaded question?” I quipped without thinking.
“You
okay?” he quickly asked.
“Long
story.”
At that
moment, Brad came back, slinging a dishtowel over his shoulder. Typically, the
females in the vicinity began giggling and whispering at seeing identical
triplets in one location. Ignoring it, Brad said, “Did you tell him?”
“Not
yet.”
“Tell me
what?”
I held Nate’s gaze, but the words caught in my throat.
Brad took
my silence as an opportunity to blurt out, “We’re going to be uncles.” Nate’s
expression mirrored Brad’s from when I told him, and it had nothing to do with
our likenesses. “Jade is pregnant.”
“Say
what?” Nate said. When Nate then said, “Who is Jade?”
“Someone I met.”
“How did
you meet?”
The grin on Brad’s face caused a scowl on mine. “Jade is the beauty I rigged him to meet at my bar on Kismet Karaoke Night. He needed to get laid, dude.”
“So, this
is actually your fault?” Nate accused with an eye roll and sigh before turning
back to me. “And you slept with her that night?”
“Yeah,” I
said like a child being scolded. Predictably, my brother, always the counselor,
listened intently as I explained the chain of events that led to where Jade and
I were now. Once done, his silence continued to stretch. “Say something,” I
prodded.
“How well
do you know this woman?” The question should have irritated me, but I couldn’t
blame him for playing devil’s advocate.
“Well
enough,” I said, knowing it was a weak explanation.
“Great
answer,” he grumbled, shaking his head. “I leave you two for a few weeks and
all hell breaks loose. I’d expect this from him,” he accused, thrusting a thumb
at Brad. “Not from you.”
Brad instantly
flipped him the bird. “Hey, I have a stupid question,” he said. “Did you use
condoms?”
“Of
course, I did.”
“Gold Shields?”
“Yeah. What’s your point?”
“Dude, there was a massive recall on them. It was all over the news.”
My gaze flicked to Nate. “Is he kidding?”
“Afraid not. You didn’t know?”
“What the heck? Cars get recalled, not condoms. Don’t they realize they’re playing with people’s lives?”
“Yeah. Thus, the
recall,” Brad offered with a chuckle. “Obviously, you don’t have sex enough to
keep on top of these things.”
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