Worse for Hope- Book #2 in the WF Series

Chapter 46: Stick

✿Bethane's POV:✿

3 years later:

"I don't want to," Rider whines as I practically push him out the door.

"But you have to," I mock his tone before opening the door. "It's on the schedule."

"I'm burning that schedule when I get back home," he threatens which he's been doing for a long time now.

"I'll hold you to it," I reply sarcastically.

He grabs both sides of my face and just sighs as he looks into my eyes. I look back into his and get completely lost in the gray they carry. He then leans down to kiss me. And again. And again. And, now I know he's stalling.

He has a meeting with some business executives and he hates going to these types of things. I convinced him though for reasons he won't find out about until I'm sure about my guess.

"I know what you're doing," I say on the millionth kiss.

"Is it working?" He does it again.

I kiss him first this time. "No." I grab his suitcase and push it over to him.

He whines at the ceiling before walking out of here and making his way to that meeting. I sigh in relief as I shut the door-not because he's gone, but also because he's gone.

I rush over to our bedroom in the same condo we've lived in since Rider moved to San Francisco.

I grab the pregnancy tests from the shopping bag and make my way to the restroom.

It's not too early to be pregnant, right?

Our wedding was a few years ago so we've been married for a while, though I'll never forget it. It was absolutely the best night ever. All our friends had the sweetest speeches, even Roman. I know, shocking! He even said that Rider was like a brother to him.

Rider still hasn't let it go.

But everything has gone great. Sure, we've had some arguments and sure we've not talked to each other for a few minutes, but in the end, one of us always ends up realizing our mistake and apologizing. It's not peaches and rainbows though if that's what you're thinking. No one really talks about the faults of marriage like adjusting your own lifestyle and making compromises that make both of you happy. Both Rider and I have an issue of only making the other person happy, so it took us some time to make sure we are happy as well.

"Okay," I tell myself. "Everything's going to be fine."

I always wanted a big family growing up. Being a lonely child does that to you. I'm not sure about Rider though since the conversations only popped up once and he said he wouldn't mind the idea either. I don't know if that's an agreement with the big family or not?

I've been working at a firm and have a very good salary which is why I've been thinking about kids so much. I didn't want kids until I had a stable income and was able to support myself. I worked my ass off to get it and am finally able to relax and not worry about finally reaching my goals. It's me though so I'll always make new goals for myself, but that's why I have Rider. To throw my planner across the room when he sees me becoming too obsessive. I also wanted to wait until Rider had a regular schedule playing in the NFL before I thought about kids too, and now that it's happened, I'm not sure what he wants right now.

I take the first test, get too afraid to look at it as I basically fidget with everything, and then take the second one since I decided I should probably just take them all before actually looking at them.