The Cowboys pregnant fiance

Chapter 12

Cody couldn't put off digging any longer and when he went to Sherilyn's that evening after he ran some errands in town he wondered what kind of reception he would get even though they'd cleared the air.

Would it be back to square one, where they started with her being polite to him and him being polite to her as if these past few days had never happened?

When he came through her back gate he took solace in the fact that when he walked into the diner this afternoon she had seemed fine although he couldn't stop wondering if he'd planted a seed of doubt in her that wouldn't ever go away. That, from now on, she might just be waiting for him to lose his cool again and it would validate what he'd always thought about himself all along, that he wasn't a white hat kind of guy at the least.

He was just about to put on his work gloves when she slid open the door and walked onto the concrete patio. She had already changed into a comfortable pair of pink sweats and Ugg boots her hair in a ponytail.

"I forgot to thank you for the Valentines day greetings," she said gesturing towards the lights. The red box he'd picked up at a drug store was gone and he guessed that she put it inside.

"It was nothing." he said

"Wrong. It was wonderful." She idly kicked at a piece of mulch that had strayed from the garden tucking her hands into the pockets of her sweatshirt. " You've been working like a dog lately. Why don't you take a night off and come in for a sec?"

"I took a long break last night."

"You were decorating my back yard. I'd call that work." She stepped back over her threshold. " I bought some pink cupcakes with red sprinkles on top. Live a little wont you?"

Cupcakes. It'd been a long time since he'd had any of those. Besides she was making a peace offering to him, showing him that there were no hard feelings left over from this afternoon.

He'd take it.

Once they were inside she showed him to her sofa. The red box with its white ribbon was indeed in a place of honor, right next to the TV which was playing some Charlie Brown special with hearts and Snoopy all over the place.

As she brought over the cupcakes and some coffee he noticed a few things. There was some kind of special cocoa butter lotion on the leather chest that she used as a coffee table. There was a pile of books about being a parent too, alongside Curtis Tyler's journal.

The last that he saw when she sat down was that in the mug she'd kept for herself there wasn't any coffee.

She noticed that he noticed. "Herbal tea," She said.

"Is that what all your books tell you to drink?" He motioned with his mug toward her books.

"They suggest it, and I'm nothing if not a good student."

"You think they studied up on childbirth back in the stone age?"

"Oh, don't even say that I cant imagine what those poor women had to go through." She leaned back her tummy like a cute rounded ball peeking out from under her sweat shirt. " I am starting to get nervous enough as it is even with all the modern conveniences."

"You don't come off as being anxious."

"I try not to show it. What's the use?"

"I suppose there is not much of one." He wrinkled his brow, ""So what are you going to do about having the baby? I mean is there anyone to take you to the hospital and all that stuff?"

She raised her eyebrows looking somewhat shy. "I was just starting to plan for that."

Was she going to ask him?