Epilogue
The sweet scent of icing and cake filled the air.
My wife’s pheromones lingered on my skin as I piped swirls of icing onto a cupcake.
The past three months of my life were the best I’d ever had.
I had a wife who loved me, and a home we shared.
I woke up every morning to her smile. Jade settled my family’s financial issues without being asked, and after we merged our bakeries together, the new location for Sweet Sensations felt like a fresh start.
We had enough workers now that I didn’t need to be in the kitchen, but there had always been something about baking I truly enjoyed. I would’ve done it without being paid. And today, I had a different reason to work.
A sheet of delicately iced cupcakes, dusted with shimmering sprinkles, baked for a very special announcement. I dusted the flour off of my skirt and face, grabbing a saucer from the cabinet. One cupcake went on it, along with an envelope from the doctor I saw last week.
Our new beginning wasn’t just expanding our bakery, or moving in together, it was growing inside me. It had been since my heat in Vegas, according to my doctor. My wife’s enthusiastic efforts to get me pregnant were all in vain, it seemed, because I had been the whole time.
I never thought I could love someone this much. I had been such a fool, wasting so many years denying what my heart always knew. It had always been Jade. Always.
The bakery door chimed, and I smelled her before her voice rang out. I picked up the saucer with my celebration cupcake and a piece of paper that would change our lives forever.
“Daph? You said you had something to talk about. Is everything okay?”
Oh, yes. Everything was perfect.