Chapter 31
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
PARKER
One Month Later
"Dammit, Molly. What did you stuff in this box? It weighs a ton."
"Oh stop your bitching. It's just a few miscellaneous items."
A few miscellaneous items my ass. I had a few items. Molly had a ton of shit.
"It's a damn good thing we got such a big house. I don't think we would be able to fit everything you own plus a baby if not."
Yup, that was right. Molly didn't know her body nearly as well as she thought. Last week we found out she was pregnant after she took half a dozen pregnancy tests, but it was the bloodwork that proved what we already knew.
Molly was going to have my baby, and I couldn't be happier.
"Just wait until I start buying for our little nugget. What I have is going to look like nothing compared to what we need for a kid."
I had no doubt that was true. My wife had a shopping addiction, and I had a problem saying no to her.
"I have one more box to bring in, and then we can start the tedious part of unpacking all this shit."
Molly stepped in front of me with a huge smile on her face. "Have I told you today how much I love you?"
The smile I gave her in return was just as big. "You have, but it's always nice to hear. However, I feel like this time it's coming with information that's going to make me groan."
"Maybe a little." She held up two fingers about an inch apart. I spread those fingers wider because nothing was ever small when it came to my wife.
"That's probably more accurate."
Molly snickered. "You're right, but I was thinking." Of course she was. Her mind was always going a mile a minute. It was hard to keep up. "We can't have a baby without a puppy."
I was sure I blinked a few times. Or a few dozen. "How do a puppy and a baby go together?" I was trying to make the connection in my head and with my hands. Two plus two wasn't equaling four.
"Because we can't have the baby grow up alone. They need someone to play with, and a puppy is the perfect solution."
"Why can't we just have another kid?"
I wasn't against a puppy, but we just bought a house together.
We were having a baby, and even though Molly was insistent we didn't need to get married again, Elle wanted her to have a reception with our friends and maybe family.
Elle's more than mine since I couldn't stand my parents.
A puppy just seemed like adding more chaos to the mix.
Molly's hands flew to her hips. "I'll be thirty-six before we have this one. And who knows how old before we have the next. I'm not as young as I used to be. A puppy is the perfect solution in case we can't have another."
I felt myself caving but tried desperately to hold out. "Don't you think adding a puppy right now might be a lot?"
"Of course not. It will ease us into sleepless nights before the baby arrives."
No, it would ease me into it. There was no way I was going to make my pregnant wife get up in the middle of the night to take care of a puppy.
"You really want this?"
"I do." Molly clapped her hands. "Plus it will keep me company when you have to go away on assignments. I can't sleep at Elle's house every time."
No, I couldn't justify that now that we had our own house with a security system that rivaled Rhett's. "Fine, but it needs to be a big dog. Something that can guard you while I'm gone."
"Deal. I've already found a few I think you'll like." She pulled out her phone to show me as I shook my head. Of course she already found some. Molly knew I couldn't tell her no.
God help me if we had a little girl. I would be spending my whole life caving to the two of them.
I smiled at the thought.
I wouldn't have it any other way.