Prevailing Love

Chapter 26

"Hey Wyatt," I say opening the door to him. "Come in, the kids and Steffy just left a little while ago. They are going to drop Beth off and then go for some ice cream."

Wyatt walks in the door. "What did you say? Steffy went to drop off Beth?"

I nod, "She offered. I was a bit nervous, but I let her use her judgment. Like I told before, I think she wants to make an effort with Hope. She accepts Beth as my daughter, knows there is not much we can do to change it, so she understood that it is what it is." I lean my head to the side, "I can't say though that she let Hope off the hook so easy. When Hope came to drop off Beth last night, I know that her and Steffy had words, and not all that pretty words from Steffy's point."

"What did she say to Hope?"

"Basically to back off, that I belong to her and not Hope, that all Hope and her family do is take, take, take, that they don't care who gets hurt. You know stuff a long that line. Hope said basically that memory or no memory Steffy still detests her. It was pretty harsh from how Hope described it to me."

"Wow," Wyatt replies.

"Yeah, to say the least," I reply

"As harsh as it sounds, I couldn't be more proud of Steffy," I smile.

"Steffy is incredible, truly."

"I know she is, even with no memory. I'm so lucky."

I walk into the kitchen. "I'm assuming that you want a beer?" I open the fridge grabbing two before I receive an answer.

"Sure, I'll have one."

I hand him one and sit down across from him on the chair.

"How is Steffy feeling, you know with the pregnancy? How are you holding up? How was today?"

"As far as the pregnancy is concerned we haven't said much about it. I don't want to push her even more, especially since it's still so early, she has enough on her plate. Plus, since it's so early, she can't even get into see a doctor yet. She has to be around 7 or 8 weeks before she can see the doctor. She's only about 5 weeks, I think if I did my math correctly. It's early," I say.

"Does Steffy know about her history?" Wyatt asks with concern rubbing his chin, "Did you tell her?"

"Not really. Her history was mentioned in passing at the hospital, but she didn't press it, so I let it be in discussing further for now. I figured it would be best not to tell her, not now at least. I don't want to worry and stress her over something that is out of our control. But, so far Steffy is feeling well and there hasn't been any issues. Once we get closer to the end of the 1st trimester I will start slowly bringing it up to her. I don't want to stress her out or make her worry any more than needed. You know?"

"Yeah," Wyatt agrees.

"I—I mean she didn't have problems with Kelly and Cooper, there is no reason to think this time would be any different, but...."

"You just can't help but be worried," Wyatt says finishing my sentence.

"Yeah," I sigh. "Exactly."

Wyatt smiles quickly before changing the subject. "And how are things between the two of you?"

I smile, "It's good actually, maybe a little bittersweet, but overall good." I blush slightly feeling heat come upon my face. "We kissed," I admit.