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Not only did they have a lot of laughs, there were a few tears Each gift that Sierra opened had her crying, which she tried to hide stoically She was pretty sure there wasn’t a single thing they needed to buy at this point because the ladies had thought of everything, right down to the crib, which she was told Cole had put together She made a mental note to thank him later

Now that the house was quiet, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do with herself Bear probably felt the sa in front of the couch and she was pretty sure he hadn’t lifted his head once since the women left

After Sam insisted she clean up theher friend that she would have thewas cleaned up anyway, except for a few decorations that re roo More so was the fact that she had felt so loved with all of the wole one of them, her mother included, understood the dynaed her in any way

Surprisingly, no one even asked whom the father was She kneas probably on their minds, but she appreciated the fact that they respected her enough not to ask It wasn’t that they were keeping the information fro it up either If someone asked, she would probably tell them Not that it really mattered because as far as she was concerned, they were both the father And,to be blessed with ently touching Sierra’s ar her She wasn’t fond of being woken froenerally startled easily, and her confusion was downright adorable

He and Luke were surprised to find her sound asleep on the couch when they walked in, the house in h there were still a few decorations that needed to co part noas the abundance of baby things that were piled in one corner Luke had certainly lucked out

“Hi,” Sierra said sleepily, peering through heavy eyelids with a smile on her face “You’re home”

“And you’re asleep”

“Sorry, I ht-thirty,” he told her, watching as Luke began rurinned at the man’s confused expression, obviously just as clueless as Cole was about what all that stuff was for “Did you have fun?”

“Oh, Cole It was unbelievable We had so ot?”

“What in the he—, er… world is this?” Luke asked, obviously still working on his profanity

Sierra sat up straighter and Coleher space “It’s a diaper Genie”

“Because a regular trash can won’t do?” Luke asked, staring at the box

Sierra didn’t bother to try and explain, shehis attention back to Sierra

“No, but I don’t think I could eat a thing After the cake and ice creaht”

Cole nodded, then glanced over at Luke “You wantyourself so if the man even realized hoildered he looked Cole certainly kne he felt With a baby on the way, the baby shower prettydown the hoet real

As he walked to the kitchen, Cole wondered whether the anxiety actually would get better or worse once the baby was born The conversations over the course of the evening hadn’t done anything to alleviate the stress he was feeling either When Kane showed up, he’d showered them with various stories about Haley and quite frankly, Cole was petrified

For now, he was just grateful for so to do to take his ifts The last thing he wanted was for Sierra to realize how nervous he truly was There’d be plenty of time for that later

Chapter Five

Luke was up with the sun the following , which ay too early in his opinion After the events of the night before, and getting home to find his house a complete and utter disaster, – at least in his opinion – he should’ve been too tired to get out of bed That didn’t appear to be the case because no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t keep his eyes closed