Wonder
I walked out of the bathroom and sat Indian style on the couch. I could feel Nina staring a hole into me, but I was too nervous to speak. After a few minutes, Nina picked up one of my throw pillows and hit me on the leg with it.
“Girl, what the hell?” I chuckled.
“Don’t leave me in suspense.”
“I didn’t look at it crazy. I peed on it and put it on the counter. It does take two minutes you know.”
Kissing her teeth and rolling her eyes at the same time, Nina made her irritation with me known. “It does not take the full two minutes, especially if you are pregnant. With mine, as soon as I peed on it, two lines appeared like magic.”
“Yay,” I mumbled.
“Are you going to be upset if you are pregnant?”
I was trying to process my emotions. Hell, how could I answer a question I didn’t know the answer to?
I knew how babies were made. So did Wilde.
But we were usually very careful around the time I ovulated.
We might not have been doing all that we could to avoid pregnancy, but in the two years since Wylder’s birth, we hadn’t had any pregnancy scares.
Until now. I was four days late and panicking.
Wilde and I hadn’t discussed when or if we would try for number two.
But when he thought I was ovulating, he pulled out every time.
So, a positive pregnancy test was something neither of us probably wanted in the moment.
I loved being a mother, but Wylder’s terrible twos were on steroids.
That boy had more energy than a young crack head.
Willow was only a few months older than him, so when the two of them were together, they gave me a run for my money.
Add in a huge belly and fatigue followed by a newborn.
Just the thought made me want to throw up.
When Wilde was home, he was very hands on with Wylder, and he was the same way when Willow was there.
However, Wilde no longer hustled, and his greatest fear was being broke.
Sometimes, he was out of the house most of the day working and then when he got home, he’d try to write a few chapters in whatever book he was working on.
His book money was growing by the month, and he did pretty good for himself.
Wilde knew how up and down money could be for entrepreneurs, so he didn’t even like touching that money.
He mostly let it sit. Then there was me.
My shop was doing better than ever. The wait list was crazy long. I had two employees that I taught to wrap cars, but there were still people that wanted their cars done by me and me only.
“I don’t know if upset is the right word,” I sighed.
“I just don’t know if now is a good time.
With Pierre being home and Wilde making sure he gets jobs, so he can get on his feet, I know he’s going to be hustling harder in other ways.
We’re far from broke, but Wilde has that hustling mentality.
Never mind that I have money. It’s no good here.
So, working and taking care of a toddler, doing all that while he works, it’s going to be exhausting. ”
“I get it, but Wilde is very good at making sure you’re good.
If you guys need to set up some kind of system to make things easier for you, I’m sure he’d be with it.
And he doesn’t want you paying bills, but you can spend your money how you want.
Instead of the cleaning service coming every other week, let them come every week.
Hire someone to do meal prep. Get groceries delivered rather than shopping yourself. ”
Releasing a sigh, I stood up. That was an option for sure, but I still didn’t know if I wanted to be pregnant at that very moment.
The closer I got to the bathroom, my heart beat a little faster.
The way I was acting, you’d think I was a single parent that was struggling to take care of my child and had no help from the father.
Even if it wasn’t planned, I could handle another child if I had to.
“And you’re going to have to,” I mumbled as my eyes landed on the test, and two pink lines screamed at me from the counter.
I felt Nina behind me, but I didn’t tear my gaze away from the test. She peeked around me, so she could see the results, and she squealed. My face contorted as she jumped up and down. When she saw how I was looking at her, she calmed down and stopped smiling.
“I can’t help it. I love kids. And I’m not having anymore, so tag your baby is it. You know you have Wilde, and you have me. You’re a boss, and you make your own schedule. You got this boo.”
It was easier said than done. Yes, I was a boss and made my own schedule moving forward but at the moment, I had jobs lined up for months.
People had already paid deposits, and majority of them wanted me personally to do their cars.
That meant even if I had morning sickness, no energy, or any other symptoms, that I still had to go into my shop at least four days out of the week and wrap cars.
“You going to tell Wilde as soon as he gets home?”
“I’m not sure yet. I mean, it’s not something I’m going to keep from him. I just might need to process it for a day or two before I tell him.” Even though we weren’t actively trying, I was almost certain that he would be happy.
According to Wilde he’d never wanted kids.
When Misha got pregnant with Willow and decided to keep her, he was pissed.
Looking at him with his kids, no one would ever know that he didn’t want any.
He was the best father. Wilde was a provider, a protector, and amazing with kids.
So for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why I had a sinking feeling in my gut about revealing to him that I was pregnant.
Later that night, my eyes closed, and a moan escaped me as Wilde sucked on my neck like a hungry vampire.
He was stroking me slowly while assaulting my neck.
I knew he was going to leave a mark and at my big age, that was cringe, but I didn’t even care.
My pussy was leaking, and when my pussy muscles began to spasm, Wilde released my flesh and moaned.
“Got damn, Wonder. Baby you pregnant,” he moaned deeper as he fucked me harder. “You gotta be.”
I was so wet there was a puddle underneath me.
And while getting moist had never been a problem for me, this was different, and my man knew it.
Plus, when I was pregnant with Wylder, he said my shit gripped different.
When I didn’t respond, Wilde peered into my eyes.
By then I couldn’t answer if I wanted to because an orgasm ripped through my core making my stomach muscles tighten and my mouth gape open.
“Fuuuucccck,” he groaned as his body jerked, and he released into me.
Cumming together was our favorite thing to do. Wilde knew my body like the back of his hand, and even our quickies were always the best. Everything that man did, he did it well. There wasn’t another man walking the earth that could make me feel like Wilde Hunter.
His chest heaved up and down as he stared at me while trying to catch his breath. “You need to take a pregnancy test, G.” He panted.
“I already did.” A deep sigh pushed from my throat because his attentive ass had to figure it out before I decided when I was going to tell him.
“When?” he frowned.
“Today. I’m four days late.”
“And were you going to tell me?”
“Of course, I was going to tell you.” I sat up with a frown. “I haven’t even known for twelve hours. I wanted to process it first.”
“What is there to process?” he looked genuinely confused which confused me.
“Excuse me?” I asked with hiked brows. “What is there to process? Um, maybe the fact that a whole human is about to be growing in my belly. The nausea, back pain, constant peeing, huge breasts, extra saliva production, having gas all the time, heartburn, no energy, um, shall I continue?”
Wilde waved my comment off and turned to go to the bathroom. “Man, that ain’t shit. We got this. That was something you were supposed to tell me as soon as you found out. Matter fact, you weren’t even supposed to take a test when I wasn’t home.”
“Are you high?” I spoke to his back.
Wilde disappeared into the bathroom, and I stood to join him.
“That ain’t shit?” I repeated as he turned on the shower.
“It’s not shit to you because you’re not the one carrying the baby.
Please don’t dismiss how I feel. Being pregnant is not easy.
And I already have a toddler. Willow comes three to four times a week, so that’s two toddlers.
All while working and running the house. ”
“You don’t have to work,” he stated passively like I didn’t bust my ass to get my own shop and become one of the best to ever do it when it came to wrapping cars. I had people ship cars to me from as far away as California.
My jaw slacked, and I stared at Wilde as if he’d sprouted another head. “Maybe I’m sleepy, or maybe you’re high. Maybe you’re sleepy. Shit, I don’t know, but we can revisit this conversation when you’re talking like you have some sense ‘cus all you’re doing now is pissing me off.”
“You being extra already,” he shook his head with a smirk. “I’m in for a long nine months, G.”
He thought the shit was cute. Maybe it was hormones kicking in already because I wanted to slap some sense into his ass. Of course, a person that couldn’t carry a child would say some dumb shit like he’d said. Children were a blessing indeed, but being pregnant wasn’t a cake walk for everybody.
Wilde stepped into the shower and chuckled when he noticed I was still grilling him. “Come get in the shower, baby. You know I got you. I got us. Don’t even trip.”
There was so much I wanted to say but for the sake of avoiding an argument, I stayed quiet and stepped into the shower.
After this baby, I was getting on birth control.
I didn’t give a damn what symptoms I experienced.
Weight gain, hair loss, sore boobs. It was all better than gambling with pregnancy every month.
The moment I stepped into the shower and closed the door, Wilde turned me around to face him.
“You trust me?”
I was still slightly irritated, so I simply nodded.
“You love me?”
That question made me suck my teeth and roll my eyes.
“Is that a yes?”
“Yes, Wilde. Can you let me take a shower, so I can go to sleep. I’m tired.”
“Yes,” he pecked my lips. “And you can sleep a little later tomorrow. I’ll get up with Wylder. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” He kissed me once more, and I turned back around.
I knew I wasn’t alone. That wasn’t an issue.
It was just going to be a lot, and it was hard to try and explain that to someone that dismissed my concerns.
He wasn’t doing it on purpose, however. I had to give him the same grace that I wanted him to give me.
As he said, teamwork made the dream work.
I still couldn’t help but feel like most of the teamwork was going to be on my shoulders, however.