Page 118 of Mafia Billionaire's Surprise Baby

The one that I told Sal I definitely had.

The one that I definitely thought was up to date but…

I haven’t renewed it in over a year.

It’s supposed to be renewed every three months.

No.

No, no, no.

“Gia?”

I put the phone down and do my best to smile. “I’m good. Just an email reminding me to make a doctor’s appointment,” I reassure him.

The best lies contain just a little bit of truth.

Inside, my mind is whirling. I’m doing mental math that seems more or less useless, as I’m not really regular with my period anyway, but it’s happening all the same.

Sal squeezes my hand. “What do you want to do this afternoon?”

Find a pregnancy test. “Oh, I don’t know. I’m feeling a little tired. Maybe just nap?”

“We can do that,” he growls.

I sigh. “But I also really want that cake for later. You know. The one from the last town?”

God, I feel terrible for this. But I know exactly what’s going to happen next.

Sal smiles.

Nods.

And gets up to go drive three hours to get me a piece of cake.

Which means that I have three hours, exactly, to find a pregnancy test.

Take it.

And then either breathe a huge sigh of relief…

Or figure out what the hell I’m going to do next.

* * *

The thing about five-star hotels is that they really do take the whole ‘service with a smile’ thing seriously. The hotel concierge manages to find me a pregnancy test, the early detection kind, within about twenty minutes of me calling down.

He even believed me when I told him that I hadn’t told the mister yet, so I would please appreciate his discretion.

I feel bad about that one, too.

The bellman delivers me a very discrete looking package, and I do have to say that I’m impressed. In any other situation, I’d write a nice review and let all my friends know this is the place to stay.

The situation, however, is not different.

And I need to figure this out. Tests acquired, I sit down to use one.

I always thought that people weren’t serious about the whole ‘waiting on two pink lines’ thing. I’ve taken flu tests before, so I thought I kind of generally understood what all the fuss was about, but…