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I expected to feel sohtness filled o, when I’d just learned that Jade was expecting, popped intoin made it seem so much more real now

If you looked ahead ten years fro next to you, and if you knoithout a shadow of a doubt that you’d put up with all the hardships that life throws at you if itup next to her, then you know

The scary part was not that ere starting this part of our lives together so soon, but rather that I’d never been able to see this kind of life with anyone else Knowing she was ood father less daunting

Because she made me better, and sheand was finally getting a taste of

Chapter 15

Jade

You love me, but I want to feel like you want me

I dropped onto our sofa with a sigh, and broughtbelly Kennedy and Grady had taken me to a spa, as per Reid’s orders, where I was pampered within an inch of my life I felt so relaxed, and so blissfully content, and I reveled in the feeling It wouldn’t be long before it was all uprooted again, and I was forced to adjust to yet another one of life’s es

I s beneath es ahead had to be bad

Kennedy sat down beside rinned down at her phone

“If you are sexting with Dane right noill throw your phone away,” I said, twisting my head to face her

“Just because you’re not getting any doesn’t h “And if you’re so frustrated, then you should talk to Reid about that”

I groaned “Every tiently turnssex with me repulses him”

“I highly doubt that,” she snickered “Considering your current, uh, condition”

“True,” I relented “But what if he doesn’t want to have sex with ? Or what if he’s put off by this,” I gestured towards my baby bump

“You’re being ridiculous Jade He can’t keep his hands off you, or your sto off for a reason”

Until we buy a da back to our conversation teeks ago Since then we hadn’t spoken much about his plans, but Kennedy had finally co in with Dane

As e to happen eventually That only left Ashley, and by the looks of it, Chase was consideringthe break in New York with Ashley’s fa to Grady that meant his brother was “tits over ass in love” – his words I was happy for them, as I was for Kennedy and Dane, but sory If I wasn’t screa, and if I wasn’t crying, I was eating If this was how pregnancy was going to be for the re his balls cut off before we started building his “football team” family

I kneas being ridiculous, but every ti a little more It made me feel undesirable, and unattractive, and it infuriated s, and I shouldn’t have felt thenant

“Maybe he’s getting it elsewhere,” I huffed sarcastically “It would explain a lot”

“Will you listen to yourself?” Asked Kennedy, her voice high and filled with incredulity “Pregnancy has done a number on you, and I have no idea why Even with that belly you look stunning, and I have no reason to believe Reid would ever not want you, pregnant or not The ht up when he gets to feel your baby move?”